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

[Joe .]

>>Hmmmm...it definitely works.
>>
>Yup, works for me too.
>
>>I was able to get it working on Fedora Core 2 w/
>>the stock Fedora kernel.
>>
>I started with a vanilla kernel.org 2.6.7 though.

yeah, i started with this kernel too. i then tried to install the latest cvs 
of ivtv, but got loads of warnings and one error (something about `lock'?). 
so, then i altered my apt config to show at-bleeding packages, and got the 
lates fc2 ivtv-experimental package from atrpms. i got (i think) 2.6.7-1.494 
(it was the highest number, so i got it. besides, there was no package 
called just 2.6.7), and this wanted to install the 2.6.7-1.494 kernel too, 
so i did that. then, after re compiliing my nvidia drivers for this new 
kernel, tried modprobing the stuff in jarod's guide, but my ivtv module just 
would not load (like i say, dmesg was reporting something about tveeprom 
failed to load, but then if i tried doing 'modprobe tveeprom' first dmesg 
reported nothing and there where no errors, so i would try modprobe ivtv 
again, and the same tveeprom error was there).

>
>>I'll say that so far it isn't as stable as FC1 though.

i've now got a fresh install of fc1 (this time using kde too, exactly like 
the guide) so i'm planning to follow jarod's guide absolutely to the letter 
and hopefully this'll work.  after reading up on things for weeks i 
SERIOUSLY cannot wait to get this all working. but then at least pissing 
about in linux for hours is learnding me stuff :)

>>If you're interested, here are the steps I took:
>>
>>1) Fresh FC2 install
>>2) Up2date to latest packages (including kernel)
>>
>>
>How many days did you have to wait for the up2date to finish ;-) ?
>Seriously though I used yum to update. I added one of the mirrors to my
>/etc/yum.conf and typed 'yum update' and away it went.

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