[mythtv-users] Upgrading question for the general populace

[David]

Stephen wrote:

>On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:38:39AM +0100, David wrote:
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>>Josh Burks wrote:
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>>>If I have to reinstall, I wanted to go Gentoo 2004.1, but ivtv and 
>>>kernel 2.6.? don't play nice enough for me to try it (my wife is a 
>>>mythtv-addict too!)
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>>From what I read ivtv and 2.6 is more stable than 2.4 - and that's been
>>my experience too.
>>(oh, mine too.)
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>>David
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>I thought ivtv wasn't ready for 2.6.  What ivtv and kernel are you using 
>and are there any necessary patches?
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>Steve
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Well, it was a while ago...
see here:
  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/57531

Been using it ever since :)

The only problem I have is occasionally a recording will get 
yellow/orange stripes.
Posted to the ivtv-dev list to see if anyone there knows about it. (just 
checked, yup - seems rare but real)
(Oh, and someone has that on a 2.4 kernel so no worries there then)

David