[mythtv-users] Advice Needed for Gentoo

[Jelle Kalf]

Ok, I'm running gentoo, yet I'm using ivtv.

Do you really need bttv 0.9.1.1 to get your card up and running? If not version 0.7.x is in the gentoo-sources. Do watch out with going for the gentoo-test-sources. It does contain a new version of bttv afaik, but it also has i2c 2.8.0 which has issues with bttv. (also explicitely noted in the kernel documentation of i2c. If you really need bttv 0.9.x support, you better emerge the vanilla-sources (2.4.22) and patch up with the patches from bytesex.org. only patch patches:

19_videodev25-2.4.22.diff  
30_tuner-2.4.22.diff
20_v4l2-2.4.22.diff        
30_bt832-2.4.22.diff       
30_bttv-0.7.x-2.4.22.diff  
30_bttv-doc-2.4.22.diff    
30_i2c-2.4.22.diff        

and in your case replace the bttv patch with the latest one. THe other patches bytesex.org advised broke my kernel :(

There are a lot of bttv/mythtv users to be found in the gentoo forums (http://forums.gentoo.org/). That forums is the largest single point of information about gentoo and all it's packages.


Jelle

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:56:54 -0700
"William H. Gilmore" <whgi at gms-online.com> wrote:

> ?
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> All,
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> Given Redhat's announcement of killing off its personal line, I have decided to look for a nother distro.  Since my current project in MythTV, I have decided to build Myth on Gentoo.  While I like that Gentoo doesn't have much extra in it other than what you explicitly install, I am having problems with bttv.
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> According to multiple references on the web, the kernel modules for bttv should be in the gentoo-sources kernel.  V4L does not contain a bttv option.  When I download 0.9.1.1 from bytesex.org and compile it, I received unresolved symbol errors.
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> I would appreciate hearing from any of you that have Myth running on Gentoo especially if you are using the bttv module.  What source are you using.  Have you done anything odd to get myth to work?
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> TIA,
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> William
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