[mythtv-users] ivtv not loading after upgrade to 0.14

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Monday 09 February 2004 05:36, Peter Lee wrote:
> OK, I'm stumped.  I have been running 0.13 for a couple of months with
> essentially no problems on a machine with a pvr-250 running FC1, built
> according to Jarod's guide.  While I have been having some WAF issues, the
> system is becominga really valued and even essential part of our home now.
> It's really great!  Now, my problem.
>
> Today I upgraded to 0.14 by doing
>
>   % apt-get update
>   % apt-get install mythtv-suite
>   % apt-get install ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r` ivtv
>
> MythTV 0.14 seems to be running just fine now, but it does not appear that
> ivtv is loading.  When I do "lspci -v" I get the following:
>
>   ...
>   01:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown
> device 0 016 (rev 01)
>   Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4009
>   Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
>   Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>   Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> which appears to be normal.  (Well, at least according to Jarod's guide,
> the "Unknown device" thing is OK.)  However, "/bin/dmesg | grep -i ivtv"
> returns nothing, and in fact there is no hint at all that the driver is
> being loaded.  "lsmod | grep ivtv" also returns nothing.  I have not
> changed my /etc/modules.conf, and it matches exactly the specification in
> Jarod's guide.  Doing a "cat /dev/video0 > ..." yields the error "No such
> device".
>
> Finally I tried to modprobe ivtv, but this gives the error "Can't locate
> module ivtv".
>
> Any hints on what is going on?  I suspect it is something simple, but at
> the moment I can't see what the issue is.  Note that I'm able to watch the
> recordings just fine (though, if course, without ivtv I don't have lirc,
> either, so I'm using the keyboard instead of the remote).

I have a feeling you're running into a little apt bug, where it doesn't inform 
you of the fact it didn't install the kernel module you wanted it to install. 
I think the most straight-forward thing to do is upgrade to the latest ATrpms 
kernel and all the corresponding kernel modules...


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