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<div class="im">> > I followed some links to LinuxTV but there's a lot of<br>> > missing context that's throwing me off. </div></div></div></blockquote><div> Which part?<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="im">Has anybody been through this? Does<br>> > having a driver available mean compiling a kernel, or a kernel module?<br></div>
</div></div></blockquote><br></div>No, kernel changes required (assuming you don't mind compiling your own driver).<br>I've been using the hvr-2250 since it first went "stable". There were some bad hangs initially but the driver has been really stable for months now. Since I went through a few versions before the driver got really solid I've built this driver a few times and it's pretty straightforward.<br>
<br>Really quickly:<br>1) Download latest driver from <a href="http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb">http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb</a> (choose the bz2 or gz link on the left) or the current one is: "wget <a href="http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.gz">http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.gz</a>"<br>
2) unpack it somewhere eg in /usr/src/v4l-dvb. "cd /usr/src/v4l-dvb; tar -xzvf tip.tar.gz"<br>3) build it. "cd v4l-dvb-XXXXXX; make" where XXXX is the latest version that was unpacked in #2.<br>4) become root and install the modules. "sudo make install"<br>
<br>Two caveats to this:<br>a) you must have all the build tools already installed (make, gcc, kernel headers, etc)<br>b) there was a bug I hit in step #3 in a firedtv module. I didn't need firedtv so I commented it out of the makefile. I can send the file if anyone else needs it but I'm hoping the v4l maintainers have already fixed that bug.<br>
<br>This card is well worth the trouble! <br><br>cheers,<br>Matt<br>