On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Paul Benjamin wrote:
> OK I have looked under every rock I can think off, I can't get my Cadet FM
> tuner card to work. Russel Kroll has a web page at:
>
> http://linux.blackhawke.net/cadet.html
>
> He says that he has done a v4l driver. So how do I get it to go? I looked at
> the official v4l homepage at:
>
> http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
>
> That site has the same API document that is in the docs that Mandrake
> installed on my hard drive from the CD-ROM (file:/usr/doc/
> kernel-doc-2.2.9/video4linux/API.html). It will be need if I ever get the
> card going and I want to do some programming but it has little to do with
> setting up the card.
>
> I found the videodev.o and radio-cadet.o in the /lib/modules/... branch of my
> hard drive. So the good people at Linux-Mandrake have compiled it for me.
>
> I ran:
>
> /sbin/modprobe videodev.o
> /sbin/modprobe radio-cadet.o
>
> when I /sbin/lsmod they seem to be loaded and working. The problem is
> I still don't have a /dev/radio so I can't get Ktuner to work.
>
> ----------- The question at last! ---------------
>
> How do I create a char device with a minor range between 64-127 (major range
> unknown) as /dev/radio that is associated with the v4l driver radio-cadet?
(cd /dev/ && ./MAKEDEV radio && ln -s radio0 radio)
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Why does all of the v4l web sites leave this step out? I guess they all
> assume that you are rolling your own with bttv, a makefile, and a TV tuner
> card. I am almost there I just need a /dev/radio entry. How do you do that?
>
> PBen
>
> P.S. Would this have worked better if I had the card back when I installed
> Mandrake or would it still failed?
Would have done the same, i'll add a /dev/radio for the next release
> ----
>
> Two more good sites are:
>
> http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
>
> Bookmark this site if you ever want to do anything with Linux sound:
>
> http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
>
>
>
>
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