[mythtv-users] need help with ivtv!!

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Nov 25 06:07:17 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 24 November 2004 20:03, Evan Burrows wrote:
>
> Ok so hear is my story.  I originally followed jarods guide for FC2
> and installed the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel per the guide.  All was well and
> I could watch live tv, record, and all that other good stuff.  THen i
> tried to get my logitech dual action controller working.  I applied
> the patch to hid-core.c and recompiled the kernel and had an issue
> with the recompile.  So we installed a couple different kernels and
> ivtv drivers but I haven't had luck getting x to run on my pvr350's
> tvout. I am still able to ssh into the box, x does just does not load.
>  So right now I am running the 2.6.9-1.6 kernel and thankfully the
> controller now works but now ivtv is broken.  I did a # apt-get
> install ivtv-firmware
>
> and now rpm -qa | grep ivtv shows:
> ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
> ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at
> ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at
>
> Then i tried apt-get install kernel-module-ivtv-$MYKERNEL but it
> couldn't find the package to my kernel.  So i went to atrpms and
> downloaded
> kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
> and tried to install it and got the error:

run an apt-get update before running the apt-get line, those are fairly new 
rpms in the repo.

> [root at localhost mythtv]# rpm -ivh
> kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
> warning:
> kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
>: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.6_FC2/updates/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko
> is needed by
> kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at

The ivtv kernel module requires the video4linux kernel module.

> So rather than beating my head against a wall and trying a million
> different combos and probably breaking more stuff in the process which
> rpms should i grab for my setup?

Try apt-get update && apt-get install kernel-module-ivtv-`uname -r` and it 
ought to work. Otherwise, you can just grab the right 
kernel-module-video4linux rpm and install that by hand long with the ivtv 
one.


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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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