[mythtv-users] ivtv failure on modprobe, i2c error on boot, RH9 machine

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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