[pvrusb2] RHEL 5.6 Hauppauge 1950 USB PVR

[Mike Isely]

Tomas:

Your kernel is probably too old.  While I obviously can't know what 
might have been backported by the distro vendor, here's a general guide 
for generic kernel versions:

http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/setup.html#Prerequisites

In particular, though the pvrusb2 driver has been in the kernel tree 
since 2.6.18, and you could certainly compile the standalone driver for 
an even older kernel, the problem you are going to have is DVB support 
in general and specific support for the tuner that's in your HVR-1950.  
Those are pieces that are outside of the pvrusb2 driver that you need 
for the HVR-1950 to work at all.  And that means that you need to move 
up to at least kernel version 2.6.26.

Unfortunately the tuner driver in v4l-dvb that your HVR-1950 needs has 
undergone a lot of thrashing and I think Hauppauge may have even changed 
out the part at some point.  That all means that you may need an even 
*more* recent kernel before it's going to work.

But certainly ancient kernels like 2.6.18 or 2.6.20 just aren't going to 
work for what you need to do :-(

  -Mike


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