autoconf problem

Hi folks,

I am trying to install the dxr3 driver on a home computer with a Hollywood RealMagic card. The machine is a 800
MHZ Celeron with Debian Etch on it. I have the 2.6.18-6 kernel.

I attempted to install the development tools to compile the module but I suspect I am missing something.
When I do "./configure" in the top level is complains with the following messages.

checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I think this is the relevant portion, but the whole thing is attached.

checking for gcc... gccconfigure:2130: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2133: $? = 1
configure:2156: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2183: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I figure that I am missing some portion of the development system, but it is not obvious to me which. Any help
is appreciated. Thanks!

P.S. I apologize if this is the typical noob question that gets asked 20 times a day. I really did look at the
website FAQ and the e-mail archives for this one and did not see it. 

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Re: Just a Test

* "Gabor Z. Papp" <gzp <at> papp.hu>:

| | > And where disappeared the "Sender:" header?

| | Uh!? What do you mean?

| I have no Sender header in the list mails.

And according to the Received lines this mail slept a bit at SF.net

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Whats happening there?

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Re: autoconf problem

Hi,

Clendon Gibson wrote (2008-10-05 2:06 pm):
> gcc: '-V' option must have argument

That part seems to be okay (that is, it's a non-fatal failure). The real 
problem is this:
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Seems you're missing the libc6-dev package, which contains the crt1.o file. 
There are couple of other -dev packages you'll also need. Install the 
libgtk2.0-dev and it ought to pull in libc6-dev as well as some others 
required.

In case you didn't realise, the dxr3 drivers do have precompiled packages in 
the contrib section ("em8300", et al.), though in Etch they're version 
0.16.0, so perhaps a little dated.

Good luck!

Peace,
Brendon

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Re: autoconf problem

This was spot on and I was able to do the make and make install without problem. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Brendon Higgins <blhiggins <at> gmail.com>
To: dxr3-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net; Clendon Gibson <bsandyman <at> yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2008 8:26:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxr3-devel] autoconf problem

Hi,

Clendon Gibson wrote (2008-10-05 2:06 pm):
> gcc: '-V' option must have argument

That part seems to be okay (that is, it's a non-fatal failure). The real 
problem is this:
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Seems you're missing the libc6-dev package, which contains the crt1.o file. 
There are couple of other -dev packages you'll also need. Install the 
libgtk2.0-dev and it ought to pull in libc6-dev as well as some others 
required.

In case you didn't realise, the dxr3 drivers do have precompiled packages in 
the contrib section ("em8300", et al.), though in Etch they're version 
0.16.0, so perhaps a little dated.

Good luck!

Peace,

Re: Just a Test

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:20:39PM +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> * "Gabor Z. Papp" <gzp <at> papp.hu>:
> 
> | | > And where disappeared the "Sender:" header?
> 
> | | Uh!? What do you mean?
> 
> | I have no Sender header in the list mails.
> 
> And according to the Received lines this mail slept a bit at SF.net
> 
> Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com)
>         by 235xhf1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
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>         id 1Km9R6-0003BQ-Uw; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:52:52 +0000
> Received: from sfi-mx-3.v28.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.28.123] helo=mx.sourceforge.net)
>         by 235xhf1.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)
>         (envelope-from <gzp <at> papp.hu>) id 1Kj93w-0006h4-Q1
>         for dxr3-devel <at> lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:52:32 +0000
> 
> Whats happening there?

Hmmm... it looks like SF's service is not very reliable... 
As for the "Sender:" header, as far as I know, it is not required; why 
would you expect one?

Cheers,

Nicolas

Re: Just a Test

* Nicolas Boullis <nboullis <at> debian.org>:

| Hmmm... it looks like SF's service is not very reliable... 
| As for the "Sender:" header, as far as I know, it is not required; why 
| would you expect one?

I'm sorti most of the incoming mailing list messages based on the
Sender headers. Who removed it from the previous setup?

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Any progress on 2.6.27?

Hello,

Is there any progress with linux 2.6.27 support?

I'll be thankful for information.

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Re: Any progress on 2.6.27?

Adam wrote:
> Is there any progress with linux 2.6.27 support?
>
> I'll be thankful for information.

Works great for me. You have to use Christians repo though: 
http://freehg.org/u/austriancoder/em8300-cgmeiner/

- jan

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First release-candidate for 0.17.2 -- please test!

Hi,

Linux kernel 2.6.27 was released yesterday, and as with most linux 
kernel releases nowadays, it breaks the API.
Hance, I just packed the first release candidate for 0.17.2. There isn't 
much news in this release, except the support for linux 2.6.27, and much 
cleanup by Christian Gmeiner.
As usual you can get it from
  http://dxr3.sourceforge.net/download/em8300-0.17.2-rc1.tar.gz

Many thanks to Christian Gmeiner who did most the work.

All comments are welcome. Please give it a try and report.

Cheers,

Nicolas

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multiple dxr3 cards issues

Hi,

I have a dedicated gentoo system installed with 3 dxr3 cards who feed 3 
RF modulators via their tv-out and audio-out.
I use this system to create 3 private TV channels that broadcast movies 
around the clock.

All the movies being played are MPEG2 video with ac3 or mp3 audio. All 
files have been encoded with mencoder.
Playback is handled by mplayer.

Kernel is: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4
em8300 is: a cvs checkout of early May 2008
Mplayer is: dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (latest gentoo install)
The 3 dxr3 cards are not the same H/W version (I could not find 3 
identical cards)
The system has a P4 Celeron at 1,8Ghz (system load is 0,20, while cpu is 
70%-95% idle)

I have this system running for several months now, however there are a 
few glitches which I cannot figure out how to resolve:

1. A/V are not in sync. In most cases A/V is 1/2 to 1 second out of sync.

2. Frequently enough, video playback is not so smooth either, though not 
on all channels, but also not a specific one. It happens randomly on any 
of the 3 channels. Initially I thought this happened because movies 
start and stop asynchronously and mplayer seems to lock the entire 
em8300 system (all cards) when starting a movie on one of them. So I 
synchronized this start/stop by issuing a pause on the 2 channels when