[mythtv-users] pcHDTV 5500 not working with 0.24

[Robert McNamara]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Saul A Peebsen <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011 07:54:20 -0700
> Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Saul A Peebsen <jaglover at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 21 May 2011 22:54:51 -0400
>> > Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 5/21/2011 20:35, Saul A Peebsen wrote:
>> >> > Do I miss something in my kernel?
>> >>
>> >> You upgraded to 2.6.38.  The kernel version removed V4L1 support,
>> >> and in doing so, broke analog in MythTV.
>> >
>> > OK, I downgraded to .37 and made sure V4L1 is turned on. Same error
>> > with 0.24.
>>
>> Did you also downgrade your kernel headers and recompile mythtv?
>>
>> Robert
>
> No ... but I did it now and ... it works with kernel 2.6.39. So the
> whole fix was compiling 0.24 against older kernel headers? The funny
> thing is 0.23 was built against new headers and it worked ... Are you
> sure myth build is using headers not actual kernel sources?
> My /usr/src/linux points to 2.6.37-r5 right now.

Yes, I'm sure.  Headers are the method definitions that allow external
programs to use code such as the v4l API.  We don't have a means of
using anything else from the kernel/v4l project/any other api.

Glad you got it sorted out.

Robert