[mythtv-users] Stuck at installing mythtv

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 25 June 2004 09:48, Tony Rein wrote:
> Raymond Day wrote:
> >Hi all.
> >
> >I got a WinTV-PVR 250 card. I have Fedora 2 on a 500 Mhz computer. I got
> > to the:
> >
> >apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$MYKERNEL
> >
> >But it comes back with:
> >
> >E: Couldn't find package ivtv-kmdl
> >
> >Mykernel is 2.6.6-1.435
> >
> >It this why? Is there a ivtv-kmdl for this kernel?
> >
> >I been doing this from http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> >
> >-Raymond Day
>
> As a first guess, it looks like your problem is fairly simple: $MYKERNEL
> has not been defined before you do the "apt-get" command.
>
> Try this:
>
> export $MYKERNEL=`uname -r`; apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-$MYKERNEL
>
>
> (Note that capitalization matters when you type $MYKERNEL. Be consistent
> - it doesn't matter whether it's upper-case or lower-case,
> as long as it's the same both times you type it.)
>
> (Note also that the punctuation marks around the uname -r command aren't
> quote marks, but "backticks." On most US keyboards, the backtick is over
> on the left above the Tab key.)
>
> As an alternative, run the command:
>
>     uname -r
>
> and note what it says. Let's say it spits out "2.6.6-1.435." Then, run
> the command:
>
>     apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-2.6.6-1.435
>
> I hope this helps.

It only partially helps. One of the reasons I haven't updated my doc for FC2 
is because neither the nvidia or ivtv drivers are clean for use w/Red Hat's 
2.6 kernels. There are experimental ivtv drivers in at-bleeding for FC2, but 
they are just that, bleeding, and are likely to cause lockups.

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

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