[mythtv-users] Patching ATrpms kernels for pcHDTV support

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 14:02, Doug Larrick wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > I was successful in patching Red Hat's 2.6.7-1.441 kernel out of their
> > development branch, built a kernel rpm and everything. The machine is
> > booting off it, the modified bttv kernel module loads and recognizes the
> > card just fine. However, the pcHDTV-provided 2.6.6 tools all like to
> > segfault (which I've read is rather common, unfortunately). Tonight, I'll
> > try playing with xine-hd and MythTV with the card...
>
> Just a hint for you... if it doesn't seem like Myth is getting anything
> from the card, try using one of the utilities that will set the channel
> (like dtvsignal) outside of Myth first.  Dunno what is going on here,
> but I sometimes need to do this once after rebooting (in fact, I put it
> in my mythtv-backend startup script).

Yeah, I've been following some of the HDTV threads on the devel list and 
picked up the same info (probably from you ;-). Unfortunately, dtvsignal is 
one of the utils that likes to segfault on me every time...

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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