[mythtv-users] Air2PC troubles, including B&W WinTV-FM

[Tom E. Craddock Jr.]

Lane Schwartz wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:13:54 -0500, Tom E. Craddock Jr.
><sigtom at sigtom.com> wrote:
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>>Lane Schwartz wrote:
>>I'm loathe to compile the kernel myself on my production box, as I
>>fear trying to get ivtv (my main card is a PVR-250) working again on a
>>non-atrpm kernel.
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>>I can answer about this.  Dont worry, itll work.  I did so, recompiled
>>my own kernel, and am using a air2pc card (modprobe skystar2 is what I
>>use) and a pvr-250, using ivtv compiled from source, running mythtv from
>>CVS a couple days after the .17 release.
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>Well, I'm glad to hear that it's possible. Couple of questions:
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>What distro are you using?
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>If you're using atrpms, did you have to uninstall the ivtv rpms prior
>to doing this, or can the ivtv rpms and the newly compiled ivtv
>coexist peacefully (obviously not using them both at the same time)?
>
>Thanks,
>Lane
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>
Lane,

Im running FC2.  I dont have the ivtv driver RPMs installed, so I cant 
say for sure about them living ok together, but I dont think its a 
problem, as if you recompile the kernel the new ivtv drivers you would 
compile from source as well would be for the new kernel, and any 
ivtv-RPMs youve installed for other kernels wont impact it. Just so you 
know, if you recompile the kernel, youll have to compile/install any 
kernel modules you need to work with the recompiled kernel (think ivtv, 
alsa, anything youve installed from RPM with kmdl in the RPM name).

Now, you can recompile the kernel and STILL use atrpms.net and the RPMs 
for kernel modules there instead of having to recompile and kernel 
modules from source, I havent dont that myself but Im pretty sure I 
recently saw discussion of this on the atrpms.net mailing list, so check 
that out for info. 

Tom
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