usb tuners that don't immediately work with webcamd
Juergen Lock
nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Sat Jul 24 15:48:41 UTC 2010
Since I've now done this for the third time...
If your usb tuner doesn't immediately work with webcamd (no device
node gets created or /dev/dvb/adapterX/frontend0 is missing in case
of dvb or the device is just not tuning/receiving), there may only
be some Linux driver(s) not enabled i.e. a simple webcamd Makefile
patch like this may be all that's needed:
Index: ulinux/Makefile
===================================================================
--- ulinux/Makefile (revision 1592)
+++ ulinux/Makefile (working copy)
@@ -462,6 +462,10 @@
SRCS+= flexcop-usb.c
SRCS+= flexcop.c
+SRCS+= dib7000p.c
+CFLAGS+= -DCONFIG_DVB_DIB7000P
+SRCS+= mt2060.c
+CFLAGS+= -DCONFIG_MEDIA_TUNER_MT2060
#
# Various webcams
#
How to find out which driver is missing? webcamd svn now has a
HAVE_DEBUG knob, i.e. in hps' svn instructions here:
http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/video4bsd/
replace
make -j3 all
with:
make HAVE_DEBUG=YES -j3 all
then the resulting webcamd will show Linux driver's debug output.
If in those you see messages like:
dib7000pc_detection: driver disabled by Kconfig
you may be lucky: grep for that symbol - i.e. dib7000pc_detection
in this case - in ulinux/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/ and
look which .c source file defines it (there should be a
EXPORT_SYMBOL() around it, in this case it was in
ulinux/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib7000p.c ) and
which CONFIG_xxx definition is needed - in this case there was an
#if defined(CONFIG_DVB_DIB7000P) ...
in ulinux/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib7000p.h .
Add those to ulinux/Makefile as in the patch above, do
rm ulinux/*.o
for good measure and then do another
make HAVE_DEBUG=YES -j3 all
and repeat. (In this case it turned out that also the mt2060 tuner
driver was missing.)
Good luck!
Juergen
PS: This particular device was an `EyeTV for DTT' tuner that comes
up as 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' (hi callum! :), but apparently with
this specific model there are still (I guess) Linux driver issues,
it only got poor reception while on the same antenna on osx and
using the `EyeTV' software that came with it reception was alright;
even enabling a module_param called `buggy_sfn_workaround' that
came up on a web search (and currently has to be hardcoded with
webcamd) didn't really help there:
--- ulinux/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib7000p.c
+++ ulinux/v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib7000p.c.orig
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static int debug;
module_param(debug, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "turn on debugging (default: 0)");
-static int buggy_sfn_workaround;
+static int buggy_sfn_workaround = 1;
module_param(buggy_sfn_workaround, int, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(buggy_sfn_workaround, "Enable work-around for buggy SFNs (default: 0)");
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