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

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.
> 

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