On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Declan Mullen <declan.mullen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I've got a 8940 edition of a Hauppauge HVR-2200. The driver is called saa7164. > The versions included in my OS (mythbuntu 10.10 x86 32bit, kernel 2.6.35-30) > and from linuxtv.org are too old to recognise the 8940 edition. Posts #124 to > #128 in the "Hauppauge HVR-2200 Tuner Install Guide" topic > (http://www.pcmediacenter.com.au/forum/topic/37541-hauppauge-hvr-2200-tuner- > install-guide/page__view__findpost__p__321195) document my efforts with those > versions. > > So I wish to use the latest stable drivers from the driver maintainers, ie > http://kernellabs.com/gitweb/?p=stoth/saa7164-stable.git;a=summary > > Problem is, I don't know git and I don't know how I'm suppose to git, build > and install it. > > Taking a guess I've tried: > git clone git://kernellabs.com/stoth/saa7164-stable.git > cd saa7164-stable > make menuconfig > make > > However I suspect these are not the optimum steps, as it seems to have > downloaded and built much more than just the saa7164 drivers. The git pulled > down nearly 1GB (which seems a lot) and the resultant menuconfig produced a > very big ".config". > > Am I doing the right steps or should I be doing something else to git, build > and install the latest drivers ? > > Thanks, > Declan Hello Declan, Blame Mauro and the other LinuxTV developers for moving to Git. When we had HG you could do just the v4l-dvb stack and apply it to your existing kernel. Now you have to suck down the *entire* kernel, and there's no easy way to separate out just the v4l-dvb stuff (like the saa7164 driver). The net effect is it's that much harder for end-users to try out new drivers, and even harder still for developers to maintain drivers out-of-tree. All that said, Ubuntu 10.10 deviates very little in terms of the saa7164 driver. What you have is probably already identical to what's in the kernellabs.com tree. And yes, PAL support is broken even in the kernellabs tree, so if that was your motivation then updating to the current KL stable tree won't help you. Cheers, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
