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Comment on packaged DVB-T drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 by Alain Hertog

Alain Hertog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:50:17 +0000

Sorry for the type…my name is Alain not lain…
Where did the “A” go ?

Comment on packaged DVB-T drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 by lain hertog

lain hertog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:48:17 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Ronald Verbeek, only that it breaks my Logitech Quickcam ( quickcam.ko ) with the same errors.
My Pinnacle DVB-T Stick Solo 72e however works flawlessly with this package. Is there any solution that both the new v4l-dvb devices work and the ‘old’ v4l devices keep working.

The package also worked on my Asus Eeepc 901 with the stock Xandros distro.

Thanks,

Alain

Comment on packaged DVB-T drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 by takushi

takushi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:25:25 +0000

rakudave :
i have the same but dont works :/

dmesg only say
dvb-usb: found a ‘Pinnacle PCTV 72e’ in cold state, will try to load a firmware
dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file ‘dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw’

but if i open kaffeine it say that dont have any dvb-t isntaled

Comment on That edgy chroot can go … oops! by foo

foo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:11:08 +0000

Use schroot instead of wasting time with scripting. schroot rocks.

Comment on That edgy chroot can go … oops! by Michael MacDonald

Michael MacDonald — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:38:56 +0000

It’s not a foolproof way to handle it, but you could write a wrapper script to manage your chroot work.

I can’t share my work scripts, but the logic goes something like this:

BIND_MOUNTS=/foo /bar /baz

for mount in $BIND_MOUNTS; do

done

sudo chroot $CHROOT

The trick is to create a rollback() function that un-does all the mounts, and then do something like this:

trap rollback INT
trap rollback TERM
trap rollback EXIT

That way, things get cleaned up on most exit conditions. You can make your script pretty fancy, to avoid multiple mounts and do distro-specific stuff. You can also use a ROLLBACK array, instead of hard-coding the cleanup process… etc. etc.

Might be too much work for a one-off, but if you spend a lot of time inside chroots, it makes life a lot easier.

Comment on That edgy chroot can go … oops! by Rob J. Caskey

Rob J. Caskey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:16:47 +0000

I have, in the past, rm -rf’d /target, although fortunately is a fresh install w/ debootstrap, but still, yeah, been there.

Comment on That edgy chroot can go … oops! by John Gill

John Gill — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:05:29 +0000

I would do:

alias rid=’rm –one-file-system’

instead and then get into the habit of using rid.

aliasing standard commands like rm to a less dangerous version of themselves seems a great idea until you go onto a system that doesn’t have the alias.

Comment on packaged DVB-T drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 by Nasenbaer

Nasenbaer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:00:49 +0000

Hi,
my eeepc with 2.6.4-19 Kernel hangs up when starting - shows : v4l-dvb (0.20080610): Installing module ……………………………………. (and many more dots…
Any idea for this?

Thanks!

Regards

Sebastian / Nasenbaer

Comment on packaged DVB-T drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 by rakudave

rakudave — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:22 +0000

works like a charm
(pinnacle 72e DVB-T on ubuntu 8.04)
thanks!

Comment on packaged DVB-T drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 by Ronald Verbeek

Ronald Verbeek — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:50:39 +0000

It works for my Pinnacle PCTV DVB-T stick Solo, however it breaks my Logitech gspca based webcam, see dmesg output:

[99314.804130] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[99314.807560] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata
[99314.807578] gspca: Unknown symbol video_devdata
[99314.807911] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_unregister_device
[99314.807914] gspca: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
[99314.808035] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_alloc
[99314.808037] gspca: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
[99314.808079] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_register_device
[99314.808082] gspca: Unknown symbol video_register_device
[99314.808343] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_release
[99314.808346] gspca: Unknown symbol video_device_release
[99367.402633] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[99367.406800] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata
[99367.406808] gspca: Unknown symbol video_devdata
[99367.407141] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_unregister_device
[99367.407144] gspca: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
[99367.407280] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_alloc
[99367.407283] gspca: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
[99367.407325] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_register_device
[99367.407327] gspca: Unknown symbol video_register_device
[99367.407589] gspca: disagrees about version of symbol video_device_release
[99367.407591] gspca: Unknown symbol video_device_release

Regards,

Ronald.