Marcus Metzler wrote:

Hi, I got this mail forwarded from usr rusch. I will try to answer some of your questions.

*After thought: I will be posting this to the mail list *of SuSE so if anything gets solved it will be there for *others as this mail list gets archived. Sorry about lenght *least its intresting :P Greetings Marcus, Thanks for the reply. I did notice after hours upon hours my post was kinda pushy but I was dead tired. And I was begging and urs rusch noticed me, and forwarded my post that was on the SuSE mailing list to you. As you might be of help. Thanks.

As far as I know the bttv drivers also work with the 2.0.3x kernels. You just don`t have the driver included in the kernel, but you need to compile the module in the bttv sources (can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html"><A HREF="http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html</A">http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html )

I have the standard out of the box kernel sources and SuSE sources(which include various things from the dev kernels that you just don't get with the standard kernels.) I did try the compile with the bttv sources with the 2.0.35 kernels and I got the missing : bttv.c:49: linux/vmalloc.h: No such file or directory and it didn't wana compile w/out errors. To put it bluntly, I forget which bttv I tried. So to start me off in the right direction: 1) which bttv driver should I try to compile for my happauge 401 TV/tuner w/radio (stereo) with use with a 2.0.35 kernel ? bttv-0.5.8.tar.gz bttv-current.tar.gz or 2) What should I do if I get that missing "vmalloc.h" header file again? or am I missing the point on what to do? Got that page :)

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I am attempting to get a Hauppague Win/TV model 401 with FM Radio and dbx-TV stereo going :P -snip- of config # 6: Temic NTSC tuner # 7: Temic PAL tuner #TUNER=0 #Do not select the tuner type here! # Edit the type argument for the tuner module in "update"!

I looked at update and could not make heads or tails of it. -snip-

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bttv.c:49: linux/vmalloc.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [bttv.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/bttv/driver' make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35-suse' make[1]: *** [here] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/bttv/driver' make: *** [bttv] Error 2 warhammer:/tmp/bttv # Arrrgh :P -snip-

I see they use the 2.0.35 kernel. I haven`t asked my brother if the driver works with that kernel yet. Did you complain to suse about it? Marcus

Yea, that was part of my fustration, no one has replyed about it yet on the SuSE email list. Tho I know prob 20f people have TV/Radio tuner cards. To tell you what SuSE has included of bttv on thier current distro is this: <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Product/lx53/pak_e/paket_bttv.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Product/lx53/pak_e/paket_bttv.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Product/lx53/pak_e/paket_bttv.html and click on Contents. .... **I got alot of docs when installing thier package all that are on that Contents list. That is what I have to deal with If I install the bttv from thier distro. Can you look at the contents and see what I would do about what they installed "for me" thing is I dunno where to begin with it..as its differnet than just grabbing the sources from the normal bttv pages. To me anyways..As the files SuSE installed don't look to me as if they are ment to be compiled like the DOCs that are on my system for it. They look like the normal docs you get with the bttv driver. The files that are not "DOCS" are on my syetem are: /usr/bin/bttvgrab /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/bttv-0.4.3.dif /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/bttv-0.4.3.tgz /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/bttvgrab-0.3b.tgz /usr/src/packages/SPECS/bttv.spec bttv.spec looks special..I will attach it are these the instuctions I should follow? and there is a line in there about needing # neededforbuild mmbase mmcore mmslib xpm gpp libgpp I got xpm, gpp, libgpp but I have no clue what mmbase mmcore or mmslibs are.. and what directory to start all this in. Maybe you can help? Steve Udell hettar@teleport.com Last thing, the Dev kernels are kinda neat..I'll have to look more into it. As right now I can't hack it. basicly dunno what I am doing exactly with it.</PRE> <PRE> # # spec file for package bttv (Version 0.4.3) # # Copyright (c) 1998 S.u.S.E. GmbH Fuerth, Germany. # # please send bugfixes or comments to feedback@suse.de. # # neededforbuild mmbase mmcore mmslib xpm gpp libgpp Vendor: S.u.S.E. GmbH, Fuerth, Germany Distribution: S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 (i386) Name: bttv Release: 2 Copyright: (C) 1996,97 Ralph Metzler Copyright: Marcus Metzler Group: Provides: bttv xtvscreen Requires: Conflicts: Autoreqprov: on Packager: feedback@suse.de Summary: BTTV - BT848 frame grabber driver Version: 0.4.3 Source: bttv-0.4.3.tgz Source1: bttvgrab-0.3b.tgz Patch: bttv-0.4.3.dif #BuildRoot: /tmp/bttv 0escription Driver for TV cards with a X11/Motifprogram for cards with the Bt848 chipset: Miro PCTV, Hauppauge Win/TV pci, STB PCI TV, Intel Smart Video III and the Diamond DTV2000. The driver may be allready stable, but it is a early version, so use it carefull, please! Have a lot fun with watching TV! ;-) 0rep # driver etup -n bttv # grab tool etup -T -D -a 1 -n bttv 0atch %build test -x /usr/sbin/switch_motif_linking && \ /usr/sbin/switch_motif_linking dynamic make -f Makefile.Linux compile \ RPM_OPT_FLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" RPM_BUILD_ROOT="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" mv XTV/xtvscreen xtvscreen.SuSE-dynamic test -x /usr/sbin/switch_motif_linking && \ /usr/sbin/switch_motif_linking static make -f Makefile.Linux compile \ RPM_OPT_FLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" RPM_BUILD_ROOT="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" mv XTV/xtvscreen xtvscreen.SuSE-static 0nstall make -f Makefile.Linux install \ RPM_OPT_FLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" RPM_BUILD_ROOT="$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" install -c -s -m755 xtvscreen.SuSE-static $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/X11R6/bin/ install -c -s -m755 xtvscreen.SuSE-dynamic $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/X11R6/bin/ ln -sf xtvscreen.SuSE-static $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/X11R6/bin/xtvscreen Check 0.000000iles 0oc WinTV 0oc XTVscreen 0oc Grab 0oc README 0oc README.Hauppauge 0oc README.MIRO 0oc README.PCI 0oc README.RADIO 0oc README.SuSE 0oc THANKS 0oc PROBLEMS 0oc CHANGES 0oc COPYING 0oc CONTRIBUTORS 0oc ICs 0oc INSTALL 0oc SuSE.xtvrc-1 /usr/X11R6/bin/xtvscreen1 /usr/X11R6/bin/xtvscreen /usr/X11R6/bin/xtvscreen.SuSE-dynamic /usr/X11R6/bin/xtvscreen.SuSE-static /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTvscreen /usr/bin/bttvgrab