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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > '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.
