Help getting ADSTech DVD Xpress DX2 to work with Ubuntu

[1976MrEMan]

Hi, I'm a new linux user and I have an old ADSTech DVD Xpress DX2 that I am hoping to get working on Ubuntu 12.04. I have downloaded a Linux driver for it in tar.bz2 format, but i don't know what to do next. The Additional Drivers program just says that there are no proprietary drivers in use on my system. Any tips for me?

[CharlesA]

Hi, I'm a new linux user and I have an old ADSTech DVD Xpress DX2 that I am hoping to get working on Ubuntu 12.04. I have downloaded a Linux driver for it in tar.bz2 format, but i don't know what to do next. The Additional Drivers program just says that there are no proprietary drivers in use on my system. Any tips for me?

Why do you think you need the driver in the first place?

[yuvraj23]

Try this.. say your downloaded file is diver.1.x.tar.bz2, open it using Archive manager and extract it to a new folder on root directory i.e /home/new/. Now open terminal and put these commands one by one.

cd /new/
./configure > configure.txt
make > make.txt
sudo make install

Thats It.. Now your drive will get installed if all dependencies are satisfied. If you get some errors (like dependencies error) then upload newly created configure.txt and make.txt file here


Thankx
Yuvraj

[1976MrEMan]

Why do you think you need the driver in the first place?

I googled for info on getting the DVD Xpress to work with Ubuntu and the instructions I found provided me a link to download the drivers for it, but didn't provide any help for setting it up.

[1976MrEMan]

Try this.. say your downloaded file is diver.1.x.tar.bz2, open it using Archive manager and extract it to a new folder on root directory i.e /home/new/. Now open terminal and put these commands one by one.

cd /new/
./configure > configure.txt
make > make.txt
sudo make install

Thats It.. Now your drive will get installed if all dependencies are satisfied. If you get some errors (like dependencies error) then upload newly created configure.txt and make.txt file here


Thankx
Yuvraj

Terminal will not allow me to navigate to that folder. I get a 'no such file or directory' error message even though I am typing the appropriate folder names, etc.

[CharlesA]

Just type cd ~/path/to/folder

Also, moved to own thread.

[David Andersson]

I googled for info on getting the DVD Xpress to work with Ubuntu and the instructions I found provided me a link to download the drivers for it, but didn't provide any help for setting it up.

When I google that card the hits indicates the linux driver is "go7007" and it appears it is available to the 2.6 kernel. (I don't have that card so I don't know what is needed to install or activate the driver.)

Some pages suggests one have to compile go7007 oneself for newer kernels, but there seems to be a package in 12.04 relating to go7007.

Is it the go7007 you were going to compile?

Have you tried if the driver is installed automatically, or via System Settings>Additional Drivers?

Just to check, in a terminal, type

lsmod | grep go7007

If it returns anything, the driver should be installed already.

[1976MrEMan]

It is the go7007 driver. After hours of trying to type the commands in different ways I've managed to navigate to the appropriate directory. Now I am trying to install the driver, but none of the commands i've been told to use work. So far every command turns back a 'command not found' result.

[1976MrEMan]

lsmod | grep go7007 just skips to the next line, no results

[David Andersson]

lsmod | grep go7007 just skips to the next line, no results

What if you install the driver with this command

sudo modprobe go7007

and then test again with

lsmod | grep go7007