       How to install kwintv


       General

       First of all, get the Video4Linux stuff working. Have a look
       at the links page to get a appropriate driver for your TV
       card. When using the Video4Linux modules included into the
       kernel sources, you will need to execute

            make modules; make modules_install

       in the directory of your kernel sources to build and install
       the modules. you wish to use one of the drivers included in
       the kernel sources.

       At last you will need a Linux kernel 2.0.36 or newer, KDE
       version 1.0 and Qt version 1.40. KDE 1.1 and newer Qt versions
       will also work. Make sure that KDE and the developement
       packages for Qt (the header files...) are installed and the
       shell variables KDEDIR and QTDIR were set up correctly.

       Untar the newest version of kwintv and change to the kwintv
       directory. Execute

            ./configure

       In most cases this should result in a satisfying Makefile. Now
       execute

            make

       and wait. Switch to root and execute

            make install

       to install kwintv into the KDE directory path.

       Special cases

       If configure has problems to detect your system configuration
       there are some useful command line switches. Run

            ./configure --help

       to get a full overview.

          * If you want to use an external Video4Linux driver (e.g.
            bttv-0.6.3), execute configure with the following
            options:
                 ./configure --disable-kernel
                 --with-v4l=/path/to/bttv-0.6.3/driver

       XFree86 Extensions

       It is strongly recommended to install the XFree86 extensions
       (VidMode, DGA, DPMS). These extensions allow X applications to
       switch the resolution to some given mode line and to detect
       the screen size and color depth and things like that.

          * SuSE Linux: Using YaST, you will find this package in the
            section X under the name xdevel (the rpm package name is
            xdevel-3.3.3-5).
          * Red Hat: The rpm package name is XFree86-devel-3.3.2.3-*

       Infrared Remote Controls

       To use the lirc package, get the lirc kernel driver working
       and install the daemon lircd. You can create a config file for
       lircd using the program record included in the package.
       configure checks for /dev/lirc and /dev/lircd to figure out
       whether you use lirc or not. Running kwintv you can use the
       irc setup dialog under Options|IRC Code Bindings to make
       kwintv ready to use with some irc.

       Any questions? Need any help? Drop me a note.

