[mythtv-users] RH9 Nehemiah w/ PVR-250 FE&BE distribution

[Michael Ford]

Can you share your change to lirc_dev to not use DEVFS?  Although i've been 
able to get this working in the past, something seems to be different with 
the new kernel i'm using (2.4.22).  Syslog says /dev/lirc should be a 
directory for some reason.  Thanks!
Mike

On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:22 pm, Jamison Wilde wrote:
> I *almost* have my setup working, with M10000 &
> PVR-250.  I was wondering if anyone would be
> interested in it if I put together a binary
> distribution. Since we have identical hardware, and
> getting it setup isn't easy, it would make some sense
> to me.
>
> What it would include:
> * All necessary patches applied to kernel, including
> v4l2, lirc_dev, etc. so that devfs is not
> needed(causes problems with RH9).
> * Fully setup via/via_v4l_drv drivers.
> * Fully set up ivtv PVR-250 including lirc, with all
> modules auto loading.
> * Working version of MythTV w/ compression, starting
> as a service.
> * Alsa-Sound w/ SPDIF outputs available.
> * Working VeXP with libDVDcss
>
> What would need to be done:
> * Running myth setup to set the proper zipcode/cable
> info, mp3 dirs etc..
> * Add in external changer stuff.
> * mount any external file servers.
>
> So far what I've needed to do to get this far:
> * change lirc_dev.c in lirc-cvs to not use DEVFS.
> * delete /dev/lirc and mknod a new one for grey
> remote.
> * Apply the bytesex.org V4l patches to kernel. Also,
> some patches were rejected, so had to hand apply them.
> * Rebuild kernel, removing 'custom' from Makefile.
> * For SPDIF output, had to unmute IE958(?) and set
> IE958P to zero.
> * Had to fiddle around with libdvdcss to get it to
> decrypt DVD's in VeXP.
>
> I'm still having some issues with getting ivtv and via
> v4l to play nice together, but hopefully I will fix
> them this weekend.
>
> Since it would be large (hundreds of megs) I would
> need to figure out how to distrib. CD's or newsgroups
> come to mind...
>
> Let me know if anyone would be interested.
>
> Thanks.
>
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