[mythtv-users] State of IvyTV Fedora Core 2 Support?

[David George]

On 7/23/2004 1:12 PM, Joe . wrote:

> i'm trying to get mythtv up and running on fedora core 2, using a pvr 
> 250 that i've just ordered. i haven't got the card yet, but i really 
> like this distribution and don't really want to have to change unless 
> it's absolutely necessary.

No need to change.

> what is the state of the ivtv & fedora 2 problem at the moment? do the 
> latest experimental/bleeding releases of ivtv work now?

I use 0.1.10 ck99e.  I have found that this works the best of all them 
for me.  I have 3 PVR-250 (two retail and one MCE OEM) in one system 
with a pcHDTV card.  Granted I have patched my kernel, but that was for 
the new bttv/pcHDTV stuff.

> i found this thread very informative:
> http://www.shspvr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=29536&highlight=fedora#29536

There were quite a few ck releases that I had problems with, but 99e is 
working great.

> but it's also a bit scary & i'm not sure if even all that fixes the 
> problems completely :| just wondering if there is anyone out there who 
> is operating well with this distribution and a pvr 250 at the moment?

What do you mean by "if even that fixes the problems completely"?  Are 
you referring to something in that thread, because I didn't see any 
resolutions in the thread.

Anyway, go for it.  My only advice is to use a vanilla kernel.org 2.6.7 
kernel with 8k stacks.  Especially if you use Jarod's guide and put your 
video on an XFS partition.  If you need help compiling the kernel.org 
kernel let me know.  A quick tip though, install Fedora's kernel source 
then after extracting kernel 2.6.7 copy the most appropriate config from 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435.2.3/configs to .config into the 2.6.7 
directory.  Another alternative is to use Axel's atrpms.net.  I haven't 
used it for FC2, but I built a few systems using it when I was using FC1.

HTH,
David