Gentoo Sources

Caffeine · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 9:51 am Post subject: Gentoo Sources

Hi there,
I'm trying to get my new Hercules Smart TV card to work. I've found a patch for bttv-0.7.105 but I'm at a loss at how to use it. The patch is designed to work with bttv-0.7.105, but since I'm using Gentoo-sources and they include bttv stuff already, I can't find the bttv-0.7.105 directory to patch.

I'm guess I need to download the bttv-0.7.105 tarball, patch it, then move the relevent stuff into /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/ and rebuild the kernel.

Does that sound OK?

Accipiter · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:56 pm Post subject: BTTV?

I have a Zoltrix TV tuner card. Nifty little bugger, uses the BT848 chipset, covered by the BTTV stuff in the kernel. I got it to work by simply compiling in (not compiling as modules) the appropriate code. This includes "i2c bit-banging interfaces" as well as your normal BTTV drivers (though the latter probably won't appear until the first is selected). I then emerged xawtv and configured that... and there was a picture. Or something. You watch that, i suppose.

Note: I didn't patch the kernel.

Caffeine · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 11:30 am Post subject:

For anyone else with this card, Here's how to do it. The base bttv-0.7.105 doesn't know about this card, but there's a patch to recognise it.

1. Download the bttv-0.7.105 stuff from bytesex.
2. Download the patch from the v4l mailling list (You have to register...) Here
3. Base64 decode the patch. ( I used this )
4. Patch the bttv directory ( Something like this... Can't quite remember)