[Pvrusb-user] PVRUSB2: Got it working (quite) - repost

[Bruno G. <bgr...@fr...>]

Hi,

It took me a while so I figured I would share my experience.

I started with a Mandrake 10.1.
The first thing was to make a kernel upgrade to 2.6.11.8 (I believe=20
anything below a 2.6.10 is unlikely to work well with the latest v4l=20
drivers).

Then I got the latest xawtv-4 cvs snapshot (I never got it to work with=20
the 3.94 version supplied) which I built and compiled. (make sure to=20
urpme all xawtv packages instaled by your distro first)

I also go the latest v4l driver (from the same site) which I built and=20
install to replace the ones supplied by the Kernel. Watch out, the=20
modules are installed in a different directory that those supplied by=20
the kernel. The smart way is probably to build the kernel without v4l=20
support, then install these (or even better, patch the kerenel sources=20
upfront). I used the dangerous quick way: change the directory name of=20
the new install to _v4l so the modues would be picked up by depmod=20
before those of the kernel. I did not have to patch the kernel sources=20
to get xawtv4 built - only install the modules. Other users report=20
having all this work with the "old" driver.

The pvrusb2 drive I use is that of Aur=E9lien Allleaume=20
pvrusb2-dev-07112004.tar.bz2=20
<http://justiceforall.free.fr/pvrusb2-dev-07112004.tar.bz2>
Mike Isely (http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2.html) picked up hiw work and=20
made a more recent version but it never worked for me.

The driver loaded nicely into the kernel after installing it following=20
the instructions provided by Aur=E9lien.

Then scantv provided by xawtv4 then found some channels (e.g. the tuner=20
works)

To get xawtv running properly, the last thing required was to remove the=20
loading of the DRI module in Xorg.

Unplugging the device causes the usb driver to crash and a kernel dump.=20
The pvrusb2 driver should be unloaded first.

Happy xawtving

Bruno Grieder