En/na BOUWSMA Barry ha escrit: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote: > > >> would you mind telling me what linux system are you working with? i'm >> desperate for this to work, i will change to any distro that makes >> diseqc work. >> > > If you are willing to get your hands dirty with kernel > source and possibly a source-control system, then you > may be able to get a working system, without the need to > change distributions -- maybe. > > The drawback to the convenience of packaged distributions > is that they are frozen at a particular point in time, > which can lock you out of improvements. That's one of > the tradeoffs for the convenience about not having to > worry about these things, which is great, when it works. > > > The linux-dvb source should be self-contained for all > that you need to get your device working. (But not > always...) So, the easiest way would be for you to > build the linux-dvb source as modules against your > present kernel version, whatever that may be. > > This will also allow you to go back in time, should > your device fail to work with the latest source, and > go back to the point where it did work -- and thereby > help the developers to get the latest source to work > again. > > > Anyway, you will need to update/download... > the sources for the kernel you are using > the latest linux-dvb source or tarball > > The latter can be found at > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2 > or, slightly larger, > http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.gz > > This is the latest source; if you look around the > linuxtv.org site, you will also see a way to download > the entire history of the source which will help you > go back in time -- such as I've done today in order > to try to see if my production 2.6.14-ish machine > can use the last useable release without problems. > > > Are you comfortable working with the command line? > I hope so, because that's exclusively what I use. > When you've downloaded one of the above archives, > you'll need to extract it into a suitable playground, > perhaps like > % cd ~/ > % mkdir src > % cd src > % tar z(or j or y)xvf ~/tip.tar.(whatever) > % cd (whatever-has-been-created) > % make > > This expects you to have downloaded the source for > your kernel as well -- if you're unsure of how to get > this, someone familiar with your distribution should > be able to help, if there isn't anything on the wiki > to give details of building this. > > If you don't have the proper kernel source, your attempt > to `make' will fail with lots of complaints. > > If you do have the source, it's also possible your > attempted `make' will fail, and probably someone here > or elsewhere can help fix what's needed (if the source > is not found where it is expected, for example) > > > If all goes will, you will have the very latest kernel > modules that support your device, and can try them, to > see if they work, or if there are still problems. > > > barry bouwsma > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > hi, thanks for all the information provided, it's great!!.. i'm not and experienced user, but i get along well with command shell, and i'm able to run gcc and install thing form the scratch. i'll give a try to see if i can compile and use those modules you suggest. i'll report back with what i've found. thanks. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
