[mythtv] Re: pcHDTV advice

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 06:41:26PM -0700, John Freer wrote:
> Jarod,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  One other quick question on a similar note.
> 
> Any particular reason why axel wouldn't have included the btaudio
> driver module with the kernel?  All the other atrpms kernels I've
> installed had it available to modprobe.  This one doesn't seem to.
> 
> I'm setting up on kernel 2.6.7-1.456_4.rhfc2.at...
> 
> Any particular reason that you could think of?

btaudio has been replace by snd-bt87x in Fedora's kernel since
FC2. I'm just copying this part of the kernel's configuration.

> JF
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Sep 3, 2004, at 20:23, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > > At the moment, I'd recommend using 2.6.7 and these instructions:
> > > http://thegeorges.us/mythtv/
> > >
> > > That's the next thing I'm going to try myself (but probably with
> > the 
> > > 1.4ulmo patches added on top). If it works, I'll likely package
> > it up 
> > > in rpm form...
> > 
> > Screwed up and sent a reply to myself from the wrong account last
> > night 
> > that bounced, so I'll recap it quickly...
> > 
> > I more or less followed David's instructions there, with the
> > addition 
> > of Ulmo's 1.4 patch, and my pcHDTV card is happily capturing again,
> > 
> > gets fully recognized by Myth, no more dtvsignal segfaults, etc.
> > Still 
> > need to get it all the way set up in Myth, but looking good. From
> > what 
> > I've been able to figure out from my logs, there's a sys_* call 
> > somewhere in the pcHDTV driver that won't work with RH's latest and
> > 
> > greatest (and annoying) patches to their version of the kernel.
> > 
> > I plan to work further on my own setup today, as well as mix in 
> > packaging this kernel up in rpm form for anyone that wants to play
> > with 
> > it. If this kernel works okay, I may see about adding some of Con 
> > Kolivas' patches on top of it to see if hdtv performance is even 
> > better. I'm thinking of asking Axel to set up a kernel-pcHDTV
> > section 
> > on ATrpms, or possibly creating my own mini-repo...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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