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| author | Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> | 2020-05-09 09:20:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> | 2020-05-09 09:24:36 +0200 |
| commit | 95ffdfe86cb1b8a8e4fff1386a147718400b76e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 82cfcf1f1c6754d8c0bc7a2a518e8fe65d84df03 | |
| parent | 36cf1ee7c644056be326655a17a20bfb2724b048 (diff) | |
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gnu: rtl-sdr: Improve description.
* gnu/packages/radio.scm (rtl-sdr)[description]: Add instructions for
blacklisting the default rtl28xxu DVB Linux driver.
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/radio.scm | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/radio.scm b/gnu/packages/radio.scm index a33cd11f0b..2616dbe2e6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/radio.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/radio.scm @@ -142,6 +142,15 @@ mathematical operations, and much more.") cheap software defined radio, since the chip allows transferring the raw I/Q samples to the host. @code{rtl-sdr} provides drivers for this purpose. +The default Linux driver managing DVB-T dongles as TV devices doesn't work for +SDR purposes and clashes with this package. Therefore you must prevent the +kernel from loading it automatically by adding the following line to your +system configuration: + +@lisp +(kernel-arguments '(\"modprobe.blacklist=dvb_usb_rtl28xxu\")) +@end lisp + To install the rtl-sdr udev rules, you must add this package in the configuration of the udev system service. E.g.: |