Linux diffs ?

[phpdog]

Hi ,

Im trying to get my DVB-T Digital TV Card working with my SuSE 9.2 X86_64 installation.

While searching about for drivers ( and finding out theres no official Linux driver for my card ) i found a page saying that someone had wrtoe a driver themselfs for my card.

It says that the " Diffs " are at the bottom, so i downloaded the diffs which came as a file "bin00010.bin" could anyone offer any helpful advice on how to implement this driver into my system ?

The card i use is a V-Stream/KWorld DVB-T PCI Card

 

[n0cmonkey]

Depending on the type of diff, you might need to use patch. Please don't post a link or anything.

 

[phpdog]

Theres a few other patches for this card , but there not downloads , there just a few pages of code on the actual page, i think you must just copy and paste it .

All the HOW TO's i've been reading refer to patching in a way like " zcat patch***.gz | patch -p0 files " but i cant find any in .gz files.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: phpdog
Theres a few other patches for this card , but there not downloads , there just a few pages of code on the actual page, i think you must just copy and paste it .

That's typically what a diff is. It's the difference between two versions of code.

 

[phpdog]

Ahh , so i would replace the code from my system with the code from the diff ?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: phpdog
Ahh , so i would replace the code from my system with the code from the diff ?

Pretty much.

Run lspci and post the output please.

I'm trying to figure out what your card is, what drivers it requires, etc. so I can help.

 

[phpdog]

linux:~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005e (rev a3)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0052 (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005a (rev a2)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005b (rev a3)
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0059 (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0053 (rev a2)
0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005c (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
0000:01:07.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
0000:01:08.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMDTechnology Inc) SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0161(rev a1)
linux:~ #

Thats everything ,

The actual TV Card is a " V-Stream DTV DVB-T PCI Card"

 

[phpdog]

I was searching for the cx88 driver files :-

/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88
/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx8800.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx8802.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88xx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.ko
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-blackbird.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-core.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88.h
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-video.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-mpeg.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-i2c.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dvb.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-reg.h
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-vbi.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-tvaudio.c
/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24.14/Documentation/video4linux/README.cx88

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ok, so you might have working drivers installed. Check out that README listed there.

The card is one thing, the chipset is another. The chipset is what is important.

You might try something like modprobe cx8802 or modprobe cx88xx or something.