Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:02:18 +0100
From: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thursday 05 January 2006 21:05, Richard van den Toorn wrote:
> > > any means to check if sound is working too, as I didn't insert
> > > msp3400 (yet). What exactly does it do?
> >
> > I believe that this is the driver for the audio.
>
> Hmmm, strange, I didn't insert msp3400.ko and I already have audio in
> my mpeg streams! Is there some kind of audio device on this card that
> needs this driver?
msp3400 is used by the pvr250/350, not the pvr150/500.
It seems that you have to answer this question about every week,
by my guess. I wonder if there'd be some way to change the module
names to indicate which hardware they're for? This might run into
length limits on their names, though, and might be moot once enough
of this stuff winds up in the kernel. (Yes, I know they're now named
for the actual chips, but obviously translating from cards to chips
isn't something that's obvious or easy for most new users.)
Maybe the "make install" step should also install a link farm so users
would see:
used-by-pvr250-350-only -> msp3400.ko
used-by-pvr350-only -> xxx.bin [soon .mpg]
used-by-pvr150-500 -> whatever
etc, or perhaps it should just drop a big file called
WHICH-MODULES-ARE-USED-BY-WHICH-CARDS into the same directory?
(And that file should have an ASCII table of exactly which
cards do and don't use each module.)
And of course the install and/or clean steps should deinstall these,
so uprevving to newer ivtv's gets the right names and removes the
older names.
Might save you (and users) some time since this seems to come up so often.
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