[mythtv-users] Help with downgrading ivtv.

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Apr 1 03:21:14 EST 2004


On Mar 31, 2004, at 17:41, Brian January wrote:

> Can you post how to downgrade. I have the same problem and have no 
> clue how
> to downgrade as I am very new to linux. Thanks in advance for any help.

# apt-get install ivtv=0.1.9.xxx

(do apt-cache policy ivtv first to see what versions are installable).



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shay - MythTV" <mythtv at highstyleweb.com>
>>
>> I was finally able to figure out how to downgrade.  Thanks.
>>
>> -Shay
>>
>> At 03:35 PM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
>>> try:
>>> find /lib/modules -name ivtv*
>>>
>>> if it's not there then the apt-get may have failed...
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> Shay - MythTV wrote:
>>>
>>>> At 11:17 AM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Try running
>>>>> update-modules
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This comes up as an unknown command.  I did a locate on it and 
>>>> didn't
>>>> find anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> also try:
>>>>> modprobe -v ivtv
>>>>> which will tell you the path it is using.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This also returns 'modprobe: can't locate module ivtv'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Shay - MythTV wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm hoping someone can help me out.  I usually use apt-get and 
>>>>>> I'm not
>>>>>> to familiar with using rpm.  I did an apt-get remove on
>>>>>> ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r` and on ivtv.  I then downloaded the .25 rev 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> ivtv-kmdl.  Then I did rpm -Uvh on the downloaded rpm.  Everything
>>>>>> looked good.  Then I did an apt-get install ivtv.  After that, I 
>>>>>> did:
>>>>>> /sbin/depmod -a
>>>>>> /sbin/modprobe ivtv
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and I'm getting 'modprobe: can't locate module ivtv'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What did I do wrong?  Any help would greatly be appreciated..

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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