[plug] V-Gear TV tuner and capture card

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 13:00, Rowan Sutherland wrote:
> Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> > Rowan Sutherland wrote:
> >
> >> 0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 
> >> Video Broadca
> >>
> >
> > There ya go. You need to compile/load the saa7130 module. Under 2.4 
> > you need this driver
> > http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/saa7134.html. Apparently its in kernel 
> > under 2.6.
> >
> > It will play nicely as a standard v4l2 driver and you can use it with 
> > xawtv, tvtime and so on.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brad
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> Thanks for your help with this Brad, I'm just running through the Howto 
> on the driver installation and asks me to run the following:
> 
> mkdir /<workdir>/
> cd /<workdir>/
> tar xzf //path/to/driver-version/.tar.gz
> cd /driver-version/
> make KDIR=//path/to/kernel/source/tree/
> make install
> 
> The make command, however, does not seem to work properly:
> 
> bash: make: command not found
> 
> I am not sure how to correct this.
> 
> Rowan Sutherland
> 

Rowan,

I don't see any reason why you should stick with 2.4 if in indeed that
is whave you have.

Do uname -a to see what kernel you are running.

If it's 2.4 I'll help up upgrade to 2.6

If you still wish to follow the instructions on a 2.4 kernel it will
help if you just install make using apt.

> 
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