[mythtv-users] upgrade gone awry ivtv modules missing?

[Vinton Coffman]

Ahh, everything is working again!

Just to clear everything up

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trapperofspam wrote:
Did you remove the old .ko files before doing the make install of the  
new version of ivtv? I have a feeling that might be your problem.
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No I didn't remove the old .ko files because this was a fresh install  
of fc4.  The only thing I had done was copy /home over from my old  
system and put copies of the old /etc and /usr/local in my home  
directory for reference.  I'm not sure if anyone else has  
successfully installed ivtv-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 but I couldn't on  
this system.  Simply installing kernel#2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 and kmdl  
modules for alsa, ivtv, lirc, and nvidia-graphics8178 worked fine the  
first time.  It could be something funny with the repository  
configuration for yum on this system but I never had any issues on  
FC3 when using apt-get and synaptic.  My synaptic install on FC4 is  
still refusing to download rpms.

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Axel.Thimm wrote in response to jra:
 > That sounds like it means that if you run automatic updates on your
 > kernel, you'll eventually have *two* ivtv drivers on your machine
 > conflicting with one another.
 >
 > Does it mean that?

No, it just means that ivtv built for 2.6.15 and ivtv built for 2.6.14
will have different contents, nothing more.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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If you look in /lib/modules you will see a directory for each version  
of the kernel install on your machine, even subversions of 2.6.15  
like 2.6.15-1.1830 and 2.6.15-1.1831.  The problem for the last day  
or so was kernel modules existed for 2.6.15-1.1830 but not the yum  
upgrade installed 2.6.15-1.1831 kernel.  I checked synaptic today  
(because it allows me to see all available versions graphically) and  
kmdl modules are now available for kernel 1831.

So it appears that there is a delay between kernel builds and modules  
builds and understandably so.  The people building the driver modules  
need the kernel before they can build their code.

Anyone following Jarod's exceptional howto could fall into this minor  
pitfall.  It resolves itself over time, the modules become available,  
but this delay could discourage someone new to MythTV.  Maybe a note  
is necessary to describe how to downgrade to a kernel that has all of  
the modules available.

Another suggestion, and maybe it exists and I don't know of it, is a  
rpm with all of mythtv's required packages like mythtv-suite but  
without mythtv packages for people that want to build mythtv from  
svn.  I had to read the README for each mythtv module.  Not a big  
deal but a single rpm would be really nice.

Finally, I found that missing pvr-250 card.  I pulled both pvr cards  
and reseated them and they both are working now.  One of them must  
have came loose in the trip to and from the office.

Thanks everyone,
Vinton