Showing posts with label kernel 3.6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kernel 3.6. Show all posts

09 October 2012

253. Leadtek DTV 1000s in kernel 3.6 (debian wheezy)

My Leadtek DTV 1000s has been working fine for a long time after the initial set-up, but when upgrading from kernel 3.4.0 to 3.6.0 on my tv computer' it suddenly stopped working.
me-tv 1.3.7-3

lspci shows
01:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
but

 lsmod|grep saa 

returns nothing and there's nothing that looks right in /dev

Finally
sudo modprobe saa7134
FATAL: Module saa7134 not found.

 ls /lib/modules/3.4.0-amd64/kernel/drivers/media
common  dvb  media.ko  radio  rc  video
but

ls /lib/modules/3.6.0-amd64/kernel/drivers/media
common  dvb
Basically, saa7134.ko is never built.

I installed kernel 3.6 from deb files compiled on another computer. My first step was to uninstall linux-headers-3.6.0-amd64 and linux-image-3.6.0-amd64


Next, to get the saa7134 module-- roughly follow this post we get

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.tar.bz2
tar xvf linux-3.6.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.6/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig

Make sure to answer in the affirmative here:
* Multimedia support
*
Multimedia support (MEDIA_SUPPORT) [M/n/y/?] Y
*
* Multimedia core support
*
Cameras/video grabbers support (MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
Analog TV support (MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Digital TV support (MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y
AM/FM radio receivers/transmitters support (MEDIA_RADIO_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Remote Controller support (MEDIA_RC_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) Y

Then build as usual
time fakeroot make-kpkg -j2 --initrd --revision=3.6.0 --append-to-version=-amd64 kernel_image kernel_headers

You can check that it built by

me@lithium:~/tmp/linux-3.6$ ls drivers/media/video/saa7134/*.ko -lah
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa6752hs.ko
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-alsa.ko
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.ko
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-empress.ko
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134.ko

All that's left now is to install the kernel:
mv ../linux*3.6*.deb . 
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

and you're done (see the original post for loading the driver: i.e. put options saa7134 tuner=48 card=175 in your /etc/modules) -- unless you have an nvidia graphics card, in which case

me@lithium:~/tmp/linux-3.6$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-kernel-dkms

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  nvidia
Version: 304.48
Kernel:  3.4.0-amd64 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

nvidia.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.4.0-amd64/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod.......

DKMS: uninstall completed.

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  nvidia
Version: 304.48
Kernel:  3.6.0-amd64 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

nvidia.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/3.6.0-amd64/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod....

DKMS: uninstall completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 304.48
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new nvidia-304.48 DKMS files...
Building for 3.4.0-amd64 and 3.6.0-amd64
Building initial module for 3.4.0-amd64
Done.

nvidia:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.4.0-amd64/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Building initial module for 3.6.0-amd64
Done.

nvidia:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.6.0-amd64/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.

01 October 2012

250. Compiling Kernel 3.6 on Debian Testing/Wheezy

IMPORTANT: a lot of drivers need to be explicitly enabled now, in particular those related to video devices (e.g. saa*, uvcvideo)

Nothing difficult or weird about compiling your own kernel, and 3.6 is no exception. This post is pretty much identical to my previous kernel compile posts, but with 3.6 replacing 3.x.
I've successfully compiled 3.6.0, 3.6.2, 3.6.3 and 3.6.6 this way.

If you're wondering whether it's worth it, you can have a look here:
 http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-6-1714690.html

If you've never compiled a kernel before you might need to:
sudo apt-get install kernel-package fakeroot build-essential

Then get on with it:

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.3.tar.bz2
tar xvf linux-3.6.3.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.6/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig

You'll get a whole bunch of questions about what to include. See the end of the post for a list.

Video device drivers
Chances are that you will want to do
make menuconfig

and enable the compilation of various video device drivers e.g. go to Device drivers, Multimedia support, star (*) Cameras/video grabbers support, which enables Video Capture Adapters. Go to Video Capture Adapters and enable e.g. V4L USB devices/USB Video Class (m) to get your webcam working. You may need to enable other things too.

 Next:

make-kpkg clean
time fakeroot make-kpkg -j3 --initrd --revision=3.6.3 --append-to-version=-amd64 kernel_image kernel_headers

Building takes a while -- about 39 minutes on an AMD II X3.

mv ../*3.6.3*.deb .
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

And you're done!


What's new:

Expose hardware/virtual IRQ mapping via debugfs (IRQ_DOMAIN_DEBUG) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups (MEMCG) [N/y/?] (NEW)
HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups (CGROUP_HUGETLB) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Virtual (secure) IP: tunneling (NET_IPVTI) [N/m/?] (NEW)
NFQUEUE integration with Connection Tracking (NETFILTER_NETLINK_QUEUE_CT) [N/y/?] (NEW)
CAN Identifier (NET_EMATCH_CANID) [N/m/?] (NEW)     IPset (NET_EMATCH_IPSET) [N/m/?] (NEW)
Three-wire UART (H5) protocol support (BT_HCIUART_3WIRE) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Trace all mac80211 debug messages (MAC80211_MESSAGE_TRACING) [N/y/?] (NEW)   *
Driver for Broadcom BCM8706 and BCM8727 PHYs (BCM87XX_PHY) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
rt2800pci - Include support for rt3290 devices (EXPERIMENTAL) (RT2800PCI_RT3290) [Y/n/?] (NEW) 
MELFAS MMS114 touchscreen (TOUCHSCREEN_MMS114) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
EDT FocalTech FT5x06 I2C Touchscreen support (TOUCHSCREEN_EDT_FT5X06) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
Analog Devices AD-FMCOMMS1-EBZ SPI-I2C-bridge driver (SPI_XCOMM) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
BT8XX GPIO abuser (GPIO_BT8XX) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)   
AMD 8111 GPIO driver (GPIO_AMD8111) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)  
4096-Bit Addressable 1-Wire EEPROM with PIO (DS28E04-100) (W1_SLAVE_DS28E04) [N/m/?] (NEW)
Adaptive Voltage Scaling class support (POWER_AVS) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Honeywell Humidicon HIH-6130 humidity/temperature sensor (SENSORS_HIH6130) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
BCMA Broadcom GBIT MAC COMMON core driver (BCMA_DRIVER_GMAC_CMN) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Support Wolfson Microelectronics Arizona platform with I2C (MFD_ARIZONA_I2C) [N/m/?] (NEW)
Support Wolfson Microelectronics Arizona platform with SPI (MFD_ARIZONA_SPI) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
Cameras/video grabbers support (MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)  
Analog TV support (MEDIA_ANALOG_TV_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) 
Digital TV support (MEDIA_DIGITAL_TV_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW)  
AM/FM radio receivers/transmitters support (MEDIA_RADIO_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) 
Remote Controller support (MEDIA_RC_SUPPORT) [N/y/?] (NEW) 
Enable framebuffer console under vmwgfx by default (DRM_VMWGFX_FBCON) [N/y/?] (NEW)  
User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem (UHID) [N/m/?] (NEW)  
Lenovo ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint (HID_LENOVO_TPKBD) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
LED support for LM3556 Chip (LEDS_LM3556) [N/m/?] (NEW)  
LED support for the BlinkM I2C RGB LED (LEDS_BLINKM) [N/m/?] (NEW) 
LED One-shot Trigger (LEDS_TRIGGER_ONESHOT) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) 
EDAC legacy sysfs (EDAC_LEGACY_SYSFS) [Y/n/?] (NEW)  
VFIO Non-Privileged userspace driver framework (VFIO) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) *
Xen platform mcelog (XEN_MCE_LOG) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Comedi misc drivers (COMEDI_MISC_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Comedi PCI drivers (COMEDI_PCI_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Comedi PCMCIA drivers (COMEDI_PCMCIA_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Comedi USB drivers (COMEDI_USB_DRIVERS) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
CSR wireless driver (CSR_WIFI) [N/m/?] (NEW) *
Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Support (PWM) [N/y/?] (NEW) *
Log kernel console messages (PSTORE_CONSOLE) [N/y/?] (NEW)   
Provide swap over NFS support (NFS_SWAP) [N/y/?] (NEW) 
Notifier error injection (NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
Set upper limit of TLB entries to flush one-by-one (DEBUG_TLBFLUSH) [N/y/?] (NEW)
Serpent cipher algorithm (x86_64/AVX) (CRYPTO_SERPENT_AVX_X86_64) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) 
Twofish cipher algorithm (x86_64/AVX) (CRYPTO_TWOFISH_AVX_X86_64) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)   *
TCM_VHOST fabric module (EXPERIMENTAL) (TCM_VHOST) [N/m/?] (NEW) #

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