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## 2. Installation

### 2.1 How to obtain Kvdr

You can always download the actual version here.

### 2.2 Requirements

- You need at least one DVB-Card, the DVB-driver, the VDR-package and Kde.

- For fullscreen-switching have a 800x600 modeline in your XF86Config file, for NTSC a 640x480 one. (The first one found is automatically choosed, should have the frequency of your choice).

- To get sound handling working get and install alsa (amixer).

### 2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install Kvdr on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Kvdr distribution:

>     % ./configure
>     % make
>     % make install

Since Kvdr uses

    autoconf

you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Guido

### 2.4 Installation details

First, get the latest dvb-driver and install it. (of course ;-)
Compile vdr (make REMOTE=LIRC) and copy the channels.conf, timers.conf and keys.conf in the VideoDirectory you may use.

The rest is the ordinary "./configure; make; make install;"
process.

(just tested at a Suse6.4-Linux at Intel-P2-hardware, no idea what will happen elsewhere...)

For a quick test, you can now simply start the vdr-daemon in a terminal (of course you have to load the dvb-drivers first and launch kvdr.

cd DVB/driver
make insmod
cd VDR
./vdr -v VideoDirectory -d
kvdr

For a sophisticated installation follow the vdr manual.

### 2.5 WARNING

Because of the open SVDRP port you should not run vdr in an open environment (suggest using a firewall). Also, because the DVB-card does directly write to physical grafics memory it can possibly crash your x-Server or your entire System if the frame buffer address is incorrectly specified or reported by the X-server's DGA extension (this is applicable for all overlay displaying cards).

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