On 9/4/07, Tony pthagonal@gmail.com wrote:
I'm just trying to setup my hauppauge nova-T freeview card under Centos 5. It works on the same hardware under CentOS 4.x using the CentOS plus kernel. Having installed the latest CentOS Plus kernel for CentOS 5.0 (2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus) I've found that various kernel modules are missing- specifically dvb_core cx88_dvb and cx22702 that were used by my system under CentOS 4.x
I've downloaded the srpm and had a bit of a hack. I note with interest that the source file kernel-2.6.18-i686.config has the line "# CONFIG_DVB is not set" whereas in kernel-2.6.18-ia64.config it is switched on: with CONFIG_DVB=y and there is also CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_DVB=m amongst various other references to DVB in there.
Does anyone know the background to this- do the DVB modules fail to build under i686 and are therefore deliberately turned off? I guess I may have a hack at the config file and then leave my machine to do some serious rpm building.
I suggest you file a request at bugs.centos.org. My guess is that when the centosplus kernel was built for C5, that particular support was "missed". A new kernel update just came out, so there is a good chance this option is enabled again if you ask now.
Akemi