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Instructions for inclusion of LinuxTV.org drivers

Download http://bytesex.org/patches/2.4.21/11-v4l2-api-2.4.21-rc4.diff.gz and apply this to your kernel source tree. For example:

$ cd /usr/src
$ patch -p0 < ~/11-v4l2-api-2.4.21-rc4.diff

This will patch your kernel to include support for VideoForLinux 2. Kernels < 2.5 only support V4L 1 out-of-the-box. If you are using kernel 2.5.x (or 2.6.x) then V4L2 is built-in.

You need to use 'dvb-kernel', along with 'bttv' to talk to the DigiTV card.

Download http://bytesex.org/bttv/bttv-0.9.11.tar.gz and unpack it.

Grab dvb-kernel from CVS:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv login
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co dvb-kernel

Modify the 'dvb-kernel/build-2.4/getlinks' script to support bttv by adding:

"for x in `find ../../bttv-0.9.11 -name "*.[h]"` ; do
ln -vs $x `basename $x`
done"

to the end.

This assumes that you have placed the 'bttv-0.9.11' directory next to 'dvb-kernel'.

Now apply this patch to bttv. This allows the dvb-bt8xx module to directly access some I2C functions. Copy the attached patch into your bttv directory, and do:

$ cd bttv-0.9.11
$ patch -p0 < i2c-if-0.9.11.patch

then you can build bttv ('make' and 'make install').

$ cd dvb-kernel/build-2.4
$ ./getlinks
$ make
$ make install

You can use this script to start and stop your drivers. Once started, you should be able to run VDR.

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