Specifications

Chapter 2. Install notes

Software Requirement

To compile and run DDCcontrol, you need to have these packages installed:

• libxml2 [http://www.xmlsoft.org/]

• pci-utils [http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/pciutils.shtml]

• gtk+>=2.4 [http://www.gtk.org/]

In addition to the library packages, you also need the development packages, which are not usually

installed. For example, on Debian, their names are libxml2-dev, pciutils-dev and

libgtk2.0-dev. Others distributions probably have similar packages names.

Note

You don't need pci-utils if you don't use direct PCI memory access, and you don't need

gtk+ if you don't plan to use the Gnome GUI. Usually, this is not the case, so you will need

these packages.

Download the sources

Go to the download section [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117933] of

ddccontrol project's page and download the latest ddccontrol and ddccontrol-db source tar-

balls.

Then unpack these two archives with:

# tar xvfz ddccontrol-X.Y.tar.gz

# tar xvfz ddccontrol-db-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz

You should now have two directories, ddccontrol and ddccontrol-db.

Compile and install

To compile and install the source tarballs, type:

# ./configure

# make

# su root

Password: <root password>

# make install

You need to do this in ddccontrol and ddccontrol-db directories.

If you set the --prefix parameter when configuring one package, you must set it to the same

value when configuring the other.

Configure /dev/i2c-* devices

Note

/dev/i2c-* devices are only working with kernel 2.6 or greater.