[pvrusb2] Installing Driver

[Mike Isely]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Richard Müller wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to the PVRUSB project and try to install the driver on my x86_64
> machine with kernel 2.6.13 (Suse 10.0). I succeeded in extracting the
> firmware but am unable to install the driver. If I understand the webpage, I
> have (because kernel < 2.6.16) to install the modules from ivtv too. Doing
> so, I get the following information with the make command:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> neuer:/home/richard/download/pvrusb2-mci-20060423/ivtv # make
> make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=pvrusb2 -C /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/build
> M=/home/richard/download/pvrusb2-mci-20060423/ivtv modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.8-obj/x86_64/default'
> make[1]: *** Keine Regel, um »modules« zu erstellen.  Schluss.
> [no rule for making "modules". Stop]
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.8-obj/x86_64/default'
> make: *** [modules] Fehler 2 [Error 2]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In the driver-directory the same. It's no diffrenece if invoking this command
> in the driver resp. ivtv-directory or in the base dir with the options
> "--directory=ivtv/driver"
>
> Any hints?
> Thanks very much!
> Richard
>

Richard:

Obviously this should not be happening :-(

Whether you build the driver directory or the ivtv directory the procedure 
and results should be the same (provided you stay below 2.6.16 since at 
that point the ivtv side won't build anymore - but also in that case you 
don't need it either).

Verify that you in fact really do have the kernel source tree installed 
under /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/build.  I just now verified that 
this driver snapshot compiles clean for me in 2.6.13.4.  Another 
possibility is that your distro-supplied kernel source tree is somehow 
lacking in some way though I think if such a thing were true then it would 
cause problems for any out-of-tree driver compiled with it.

You could try a vanilla kernel tree.  I test against vanilla kernel trees 
here, so I can't make any assurances about a particular distro's kernel 
tree.

   -Mike

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