[mythtv-users] Video devices on recent kernels

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
> On 02/27/2013 02:49 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't know about the HD-3000, but the driver for the PVR500 is
>> CONFIG_VIDEO_IVTV. In 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig', you will find
>> it under Device Drivers => Multimedia support => Media PCI Adapters =>
>> Conexant cx23416/cx23415 MPEG encoder/decoder support. I also turn on
>> the two options in that section.
>
>
> Thanks for the pointer; however, that entry is not present for me in either
> "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig". My guess is that it's now dependent
> upon some other kernel option that is NOT set in my kernel, but I haven't a
> clue what this "mystery option" might be. Any suggestions on this score?
>

For ivtv it may be CONFIG_MEDIA_PCI_SUPPORT=y

although you could press / then type IVTV and menuconfig should give
you the required dependent settings.

John