[mythtv-users] ivtv failure on modprobe, i2c error on boot,
RH9 machine
Jarod C. Wilson
jcw at wilsonet.com
Sat Oct 4 22:47:48 EDT 2003
On Saturday, Oct 4, 2003, at 18:53 US/Pacific, Mike Monk wrote:
> First let me say thank you for creating that document on RH9 and the
> PVR. That document got me through myth 0.10 flawlessly. Second of
> all thank you for the time you took to give me some suggestions.
You're welcome on both accounts. :)
> 1) I did change the last line in the /etc/modules.conf to:
> add below ivtv i2c-core i2c-algo-bit msp3400 saa7115 tuner
>
> That did not seem to work for me. It kicks the same error
I didn't think it would make a difference, but someone else mentioned
it helped them out... It isn't something I do; my i2c-core and
i2c-algo-bit load when they're supposed to on their own...
> 2) when I run "rpm -q ivtv" it says that the ivtv package is not
> installed.
Very bad. On my system:
# rpm -q ivtv
ivtv-0.12-cvs20030813_12.rh9.at
> I doubled checked the lib/modules/`uname -r`/drivers/media/video
> directory and ivtv.o is still in there. I opened up synaptic and
> double checked and it said I did have a version of ivtv installed.
A version of ivtv-kmdl installed, yes. That's the kernel module half.
You also need the ivtv rpm.
> Some side notes on this, I am using the 2.4.20-20.9 kernel not the
> 2.4.20-8.rh9.at kernel that is suggested in your instructions.
Shouldn't be a problem, but it isn't something I've tested myself
anytime recently.
> I used apt-get and synaptic to install the following after the
> default install:
> 1) apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> 2) apt-get install qt-MySQL
> 3) kernel#2.4.20-20.9 ( package name in synaptic )
> 4) ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.p ( package name in synaptic )
Crap. I think I've spotted the problem... Axel now has two different
sets of ivtv rpms posted, one cut off 8/13 CVS source, the other off
9/29 decoder-alpha ivtv CVS source. While kernel modules for both are
showing up in the apt package list (I'm looking through it right now
w/Synaptic), the base package, ivtv, only shows the newer one in the
repo. Both are still on the ATrpms web site though.
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.
I'll drop a line to Axel, but he's out of town until Sunday or Monday.
Hopefully, this explains some of the problems folks have been having...
--Jarod
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