From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: For more help and info can you ask the Linux DVB mailinglist at http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists.xml so that this is included in the next version of Red Hat DVB is Digital Video Broadcast the 3 types of devices are DVB-s = Satellite TV and/or Internet DVB-t = Terrestrial ie. Digital TV broadcasts DVB-c = Cable The web page is at http://www.linuxdvb.tv/ http://www.linuxtv.org/ The Satellite HOWTO is at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sat-HOWTO.html http://linux.org.by/articles/ss1.html http://tforums.com/happysat/viewforum.php?f=17 Get latest drivers and utils from CVS cd /usr/src cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:/cvs/linuxtv login cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:/cvs/linuxtv co DVB cvs -d:pserver:anonymous.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dvbtools login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dvbtools co dvbtune Some of what I have attempted so far Install drivers CVS version cd /usr/src ln -s linux-2.4 linux cd /usr/src/linux After copying the correct config file for the kernel Make sure that your kernel has enabled: video4linux support (CONFIG_VIDEODEV), Input Core Support (CONFIG_INPUT) and event device support (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV) make mrproper #(is this needed ?) cp configs/kernel-2.4.18-athlon.config .config make oldconfig #(is this needed ?) make dep #make bzImage #(is this needed ?) make modules #(is this needed ?) depmod -a I built the drivers using the instructions in README and INSTALL cd /usr/src/DVB/driver make make insmod lsmod For TV: to use tuxzap: cd /usr/src/DVB/libdvb make cd /usr/src/DVB/apps/tuxzap Read instructions compile and setup VDR --------------------------------- lspci output is 00:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.N/A 2. 3. Additional info:
I wonder why the DVB people haven't submitted this for inclusion into the upstream 2.4 kernel... if it is because it's not ready yet, I'd not be happy to included it either :(
The DVB driver is in the 2.5.x kernel now and will be in 2.6 when released Can you ask the DVB mailinglist for the info you need to get it in Red Hat 8.1. Mandrake has the DVB Driver included why not Red Hat The driver has been "ready" for a long time and VDR is great Without this driver Red Hat users won't be able to use/watch Digital TV, Satellite TV, Digital Cable TV, Satellite Internet, and more. Remember that Digital TV is now taking off and support is needed.
Also see this thread http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2002/01-2002/msg00246.html Will this be in Red Hat 8.1 ?
With the approaching EOL of the earlier RHL products, the focus is now on stability fixes only, so new features will not be added/backported.
Now when 2.6 kernel is out there (DVB drivers included), we need userspace DVB tools for Redhat ES and Fedora.