[mythtv-users] Mandriva 2007 comes with IVTV :) but....

[Greg Schade]

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 21:45 -0600, Malcolm wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> After much frustration upgrading my old mandrake 10.0 box and recompiling 
> everything on there about a million times I just wiped it and loaded 
> Mandriva 2007 and was very surprised to see IVTV 0.7 installed.  Looking at 
> dmesg I see the only thing its missing is the firmware which I'm guessing is 
> why I don't have /dev/video devices.
> 
> I looked on http://ivtvdriver.org and found this:
> 
> Mandriva 2007: has support in de kernel you only need to download de 
> firmware rpms from plf to get a working configuration.
> 
> Where or what is plf?  I searched google for a firmware rpm and found so 
> many pages and links to different rpms I'm not sure what to get.
> 
http://plf.zarb.org/

you want to use easy urpmi
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

it allows you to get packages not included, for a variety of reasons, in
the official Mandriva release. 
Greg
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