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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 21:04, Steve Withers wrote:
> I'm trying to get my TV card (Avermedia Cph03x) going with Gentoo 1.4.
>
> I see that the support for it is in the source tree of the kernel
> 2.4.20-gentoo-r8.
>
> There is no module in the /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r8/drivers
> directory. I have seen docs saying there should be a 'media' directory
> there, but it isn't there on my system.
>
> insmod bttv doesn't work.....confirming no module.
>
> How can I be sure I have the support actually compiled into the kernel
> and then generate the appropriate module?
>
> I'm learning this stuff fairly rapidly, but I'm not sure what to look at
> next....and the docs all assume a specific starting point - which I'm
> not at - and I'm having trouble working out exactly where I am and which
> way to go.
>
> Mythtv installed perfectly and runs great - except for the lack of a
> video capture device defined on the system to point it at.  :-)

I assume you used genkernel to compile your kernel, if so simply do a 
'genkernel --config' and poke about.
The option selection is the default config, so there is no need to worry about 
sorting the rest to suit your machine.

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Mike Williams
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