From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-84619-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1KkHJE-0001Gd-1t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:53:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C41E3E062C; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9843DE062C for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id A62562118E1 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:52:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97AD82118E0 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:52:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.8) with ESMTPSA id 37522937 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:52:52 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:52:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.26.5r4; KDE/4.1.67; x86_64; ; ) References: <255226.20100.qm@web51311.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <255226.20100.qm@web51311.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809291352.49696.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 5341bd77-6484-4cd9-ba75-984cee720a6a X-Archives-Hash: ef6e986425fb35c20ec5455deb780ba0 On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: > --- On Mon, 29/9/08, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu- clausthal.de> wrote: > > From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-Sources/Vanilla-Sources/Video 4 Linux > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Date: Monday, 29 September, 2008, 10:59 AM > > > > 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. > > Hi, I went thru this process but i still dont have the option to add > support as a kernel module. Should the mercurial add steps to the > menuconfig? no. it just installs all the drivers in the rep as modules. It doesn't touch any configs at all.