Erik,

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Erik Williamson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm responding to myself here, just in case someone else can use this 
> someday:
> 
> It turns out that bttv is included with the stock linux kernel from 
> 2.6.0 on.  CONFIG_BT848 is enabled in Fedora Core 3 (and others I 
> presume), yet disabled in EL4.  Fair enough - they sureley left it out 
> for a reason.  With that, I'm recompiling the src.rpm with it enabled. 
> Time will tell if it works.
> 
> I'll need to do this whenever there's kernel updates.  This leads me to ask:
> 
> 1) Is the kernel-unsupported package not provided by the vendor with 
> el4?  I saw that it was with el3.

Vendor did not provide it.

> 2) Is there a better way for me to build this module?

Better way than what?  How did you build it?

-Connie Sieh
> 
> Thanks for suggestions / help!
> Erik.
> 
> Erik Williamson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with video capture cards 
> > and SL4 - I'm rebuilding a bunch of Fedora Core 1 boxes which had the 
> > bttv module as part of the included kernel package.
> > 
> > I see that bttv source is in the kernel .src.rpm - but there's no 
> > mention of it in the .config's (thought there'd be a "# CONFIG_BTTV is 
> > not set" or some such) or in any of the patches applied.
> > 
> > Anyhow, is there some other driver to use, or should I work towards 
> > compiling the module myself?
> > 
> > Thanks for any hints.
> > 
> > Best,
> > Erik.
> > 
> 
>