[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3541: Backend Crashes When Recording From Mux A In The UK (Freeview / DVB-T)

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 16:26 +0100, nospam312 wrote:
> > I think you misunderstand. You reported that your DVB-T card worked
> > with the patch applied, so I applied the patch for it along with a
> > DVB-S card that had the same exact problem. The DVB-S card has been
> > tested on Linux 2.6.18 and later with the most recent firmware. Your
> > card has been tested with whatever Linux version and firmware you
> > have.
> > I think the confusion arises because the fix for #3541 was removing
> > a workaround for an old driver/firmware problem. That earlier problem
> > appeared as a "fix" to people using the old driver/firmware, but in
> > fact caused a number of known problems and was only a stop-gap measure.
> > Now that the driver/firmware has been fixed, removing that old "fix"
> > makes MythTV work properly again when you use this hardware.
> 
> Thanks Daniel for your reply and for finding time to look at the
> original problem.
> 
> Yes you are correct I am confused - not very difficult to do with not
> being a Linux expert.  I downloaded the latest SVN and typed patch
> filename.patch and typed in the path to the file the patch needed.
> Running the patch again said the patch had already been applied so I
> assumed the patch was applied correctly.
> 
> I will download the SVN version again and check that it still works -
> is that a good way of confirming everything is okay?

An efficient way to make sure you have SVN without any patches applied
is to do an "svn diff | patch -p0 -R; svn update", or you can just
check it out again (but this is much less efficient and slower).
Then recompile and install.

-- Daniel