[mythtv-users] ivtv falls over and plays dead
Phil Bridges
gravityhammer at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 19:00:28 UTC 2008
On Jan 24, 2008 1:49 PM, <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 24, 2008 11:07 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> >> John Drescher wrote:
> >> > On Jan 24, 2008 10:51 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> My pvr150 falls over and plays dead once in a while. The tuner is
> >> still
> >> >> there, but recordings fail and no file is created.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > I have seen this with older versions of the ivtv driver. What version
> >> > of ivtv are you using? Do you have any errors in your dmesg output?
> >> >
> >>
> >> selene:/var/log/mythtv# uname -a
> >> Linux selene 2.6.22-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 23:43:59 UTC 2007 x86_64
> >> GNU/Linux
> >>
> >> No errors at all other than those given.
> >>
> >> Time to build a new kernel?
> >>
> >> --Yan
> >>
> >>
> >
> > What version of IVTV are you using?
>
> My understanding (at least at the time I built that kernel) is that ivtv
> is now part of mainline and isn't supported/distributed outside of
> mainline.
>
> That's why I posted my kernel version.
>
> I'll check the ivtv webpage and see if that's changed.
>
I know that on my Gentoo system (2.6.23-gentoo-r3), you still need ivtv:
* media-tv/ivtv
Latest version available: 1.0.3-r1
Latest version installed: 1.0.3-r1
Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]
Homepage: http://www.ivtvdriver.org
Description: ivtv driver for Hauppauge PVR PCI cards
License: GPL-2
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