Need a b00st loading a kernel module

[anothertwitch]

Greetz All!

I am hacking around with an old bt848 based stb tv tuner (PCI).

I have iTV (a little tv watching/capture app and kernel driver)

It's from someone in Germany I believe -- anyway, I can't seem to get the driver loaded. I figure this has something to do with my level of ignorance and inexperience.

I am usiing kextload as follows:

Opticon:~ root# kextload /Volumes/working_image/Applications/itv/bt8xx.kext/
kextload: extension /Volumes/working_image/Applications/itv/bt8xx.kext is not authentic
Opticon:~ root#

As you can see, it claims the kernel extension is not authentic.

Being rather new to the bsd-ish, Darwinish, os x flavor of the unix world (long time solaris & linux user though), I feel ill equipped to approach troubleshooting this without some solid advice from you all.

Any help or pointers to doc would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!

Be Well,
James

 

[anothertwitch]

Is there some unknown majick to making line-in work? I have an old apple mic which works great on the SB16 line-in on my PC, but cant seem to get any input level indication on any of the software I've used (system prefs/sound and audacity, now itv).

I managed to get iTV working by loading the kext structure into the kernel by ID String as opposed to pathname; I've got excellent video, many scanned channels, and even found an ancient old patch cord for the audio-out to line-in patch, and guess what- no audio!

This is the same bt848 tv card I had in the same pc the mic works on ;^) and it works great audio and all over on the pc...

surely the line-in on my mac is not defective?!??!!??! its brand spanky new!

Any suggestions?