Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> Hi, i have spent the weekend trying to get my new Hauppage USB tv stick to
> work under linux.
>
> I have been constantly perplexed by references to compilable kernel modules
> I couldn't see! I assumed it was because they referred to old modules or
> something.
>
> But having downloaded and booted into Knoppix and run make menuconfig on
> that i have confirmed that kernel seems to have 10's of TV card chipset
> drivers availible to compile whereas gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources emerged
> on my machine have maybe 2 or 3.
>
> Can someone offer me some assistance as to why this might be?
>
> Thank you
>
> (This is my first mailing list post - please be gentle!)
>
> -----------------------
> N: Jon Hardcastle
> E: Jon@eHardcastle.com
> 'The writing is on the wall...'
> -----------------------

because a large part of the dvb/tv drivers are developed outside of the main 
kernel tree. Also a large part is hidden under experimental.

For my dvb-t stick I need to checkout a mercurial rep and do a make, make 
install in it do get drivers that work. And with 'work' I mean: no sound on 
first try, but after disconnecting the stick and reconnecting it, it suddenly 
works.