[mythtv-users] HELP! ivtv error after kernel/ivtv upgrade.

Joel Anderson bitjunkie at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 14:26:18 UTC 2007


> As part of chasing down an audio glitch problem I upgraded my kernel,
> ivtv and alsa modules. Now I get an error trying to load ivtv. The error
> messages are not real helpful to me so I am hoping someone on the list
> knows what to do (other than go back to the old kernel/kmdl pairs. Here
> are the particulars.
>
> kernel: 2.6.22.1-32.fc6
> ivtv: 1:1.0.2-134.fc6
> the correct kmdl is loaded.
>
> Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, no help.
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# modprobe ivtv
> FATAL: Error inserting ivtv
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22.1-32.fc6/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>

Sounds like your issues are probably due to the ivtv driver being
included in the kernel as of 2.6.22, so you don't need a separate
module package installed any more.  Actually I don't think you need to
install the alsa module package any more either, someone correct me if
that's wrong.

HTH,
JA


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