[mythtv-users] Re: Ping Jarod. A Clue?

[Jim Chandler]

On 23 Dec 2003 15:55:44 -0500
Michale <mythtv at pln.cc> wrote:

> Hi Axel,
> 
> [root at myth files]# rpm -qa 'ivtv-kmdl-*'
> ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at-0.12-cvs20031125a_M179_cs_16.rh9.at
> [root at myth files]#
> 
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 15:51, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:50:27PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:27, Michale wrote:
> > > > Hay,
> > > >
> > > > I think I might be on to something here.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the GOSSAMER Archives, I came across this thread that you
> > > > were part of:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/ivtv_fail
> > > >ure_on_modprobe,_i2c_error_on_boot,_RH9_machine_P83888/
> > > >
> > > > In it you said,
> > > >
> > > > "What output do you get from "rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9"? I'm
> > > > wondering which ivtv you're running. If it is the older one, I think
> > > > you may have to manually download the base ivtv package (
> > > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/ivtv/ ) and install by
> > > > hand."
> > > >
> > > > Now, I did the "rpm -q" and this is what I got:
> > > >
> > > > [root at myth root]# rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9
> > > > package ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 is not installed
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Now... Thinking that, since I am running kernel 2.4.20-24_31, I
> > > > modified the above:
> > > >
> > > > [root at myth root]# rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.24-31.9
> > > > package ivtv-kmdl-2.4.24-31.9 is not installed
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So, then I went to SYNAPTIC and looked up my ivtv info it says that
> > > > one of ivtv's dependencies is ivtv-kmdl-smp-2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at.  But
> > > > synaptic says that the dependency is satisfied.
> > > >
> > > > To quote Tom Cruise...  "Now, I don't know what all that means, but
> > > > it sounds pretty bad."
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Try 'rpm -q ivtv-kmdl'.  Generally, you leave off the version numbers 
> > > when querying RPM packages.
> > 
> > These are no version numbers ;)
> > 
> > Try
> > 
> > 	rpm -qa 'ivtv-kmdl-*'
> > 
> > instead.
> > 
> > > -JAC
> 
> 

Try 

rpm -qa | grep ivtv


-- 
Jim
N0VH