[mythtv-users] Mythtv on FC6 -> Fedora7 Upgrade

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:30:27PM -0500, George Galt wrote:
> Axel:
> 
> >From everything I read, the stock kernels in CentOS haven't been built
> with the capture card drivers.

Neither had the RHL and Fedora kernels (at loeast for ivtv) for
several years, still this was not a problem :)

> Have you tweaked the kernels in atrpms so that this isn't an issue?
> If so, I'll jump now.

Not directly tweaked the kernels, but ATrpms is shipping the missing
bits in kmdl form. This is also the preferred update model: Let the
upstream vendor care about the kernel core including security updates
and keeping the video/audio api invariant and have kmdl shells on top
of it.

One can almost 100% guarantee that the next RHEL/CentOS kernel update
will not break any capture drivers. So if it works once you can be
rather certain that you can ride on updates for at least 2-3 years w/o
major reconfiguration/reinstallation etc.

I still hope we'll get some time to do a mythdora based on CentOS - I
know it has been done already as a proof of concept, now let's get
some more interested people together and do the real thing :)

> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> On Nov 10, 2007 6:55 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:37:59PM -0500, George Galt wrote:
> > > Anyone been able to find a good guide for getting mythtv running on
> > > CentOS?  I'm OK with updating on Fedora, but I built a system for my
> > > dad and upgrading it via SSH from 500 miles away every 6 months is a
> > > little much (for both him and me).  I'd like to put him on CentOS, but
> > > I understand there are a lot of kernel issues -- mostly with the
> > > capture card drivers.
> >
> > Actually the experience I had was the opposite. Since the kernel is
> > frozen feature-wise in the capture card area the kmdls are invariantly
> > working well on RHEL5/CentOS5. In contrast every kernel bump on Fedora
> > causes capture card issues.
> >
> >
> > > I've hunted around with little luck.  I could probably just bang
> > > away at it, since CentOS 5 is similar to FC6, but I'd prefer to have
> > > someone blaze the path first -- and then give me the benefit of
> > > their hard-won experience ;-)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > > On Nov 9, 2007 11:44 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:34:09PM +1100, Shanon Mulley wrote:
> > > > > As FC6 is due to have its support ended soon, I'm trying to upgrade my
> > > > > mythtv FC6 machine to Fedora7.
> > > >
> > > > Since Fedora 8 is not really that different than F7., but has 6 months
> > > > longer to live, maybe it's better to go F8 instead?
> > > >
> > > > Note that the Fedora Project leaders decided to have FC6 and F8
> > > > overlap for a month to allow this scenario: Users skipping one interim
> > > > distribution, e.g. upgrading every year instead of twice a year.
> > > >
> > > > Or go right to CentOS5 which will be supported for much longer. Even
> > > > less to worry about once the system is running.
> > --
> > Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
> >
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