[mythtv-users] Error when compiling ITVTV driver

[Romel Llarena]

> Running the 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at kernal
>
> Since then, I've been getting some unexpected
results
> when trying to configure VMWARE. No biggie, I'll
call
> VMWARE support once MythTV is done. Anyhow, I did
the
> apt-get command in Jarod's documentation for the
IVTV
> driver, but after several fresh installs I can't get
X
> to stop crashing after the install.

Are you sure you have the hauppauge firmware in place?
Axel had to pull it from the rpms, and it doesn't get
installed when you do a source install, so you have to
manually fetch the Windows drivers and extract the
firmware from them (ivtv includes a script to do
this).

Pulled the latest files from hauppauge. The make
command keeps failing though.

$ cd ~/ivtv/ivtv/driver
$ make
Makefile:8: /usr/src/linux/.config: No such file or
directory
make: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/src/linux/.config'.  Stop.

> My searches on Google indicate that I didn't have
the
> source installed properly and to run "make install" 
> in /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-6/ as rpm -ivh --force
> kernel-2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.src.rpm wasn't enough.

It isn't the .src.rpm you need, it is the
kernel-source-2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.i386.rpm file that
you need to install.

Wow, I didn't catch that one after 20x installation
attempts. What was I installing then???

Oh, and a new guide addressing some of these issues is
now posted.

I plan on doing hopefully one more fresh install once
I  tryout the kernel fix, following the new guide. I
want to keep it as clean as possible.

Thanks!


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