[mythtv-users] ivtv troubles with Jarod's howto

Matt Hannan matthew.j.hannan at verizon.net
Thu Oct 7 01:14:21 UTC 2004


Jarod Wilson wrote:

>On Wednesday 06 October 2004 14:31, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
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>>Fellow mythtvites,
>>
>>I have been running MythTV for about 6 months or so, and decided that I
>>need more time to actually enjoy myth, so I redid my whole machine
>>(actually bought a new mobo and cpu for it) and I'm trying Jarod's guide
>>with the atrpms.  I was crusing along when I hit the ivtv stuff.  I'm
>>getting an error about not being able to do an apt-get on
>>kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.8-1.521.  apt-get reports there is no package
>>with this name.  I searched the archives, but didn't find any relevant
>>information.  I'm running FC2.  I've tried grabbing the ivtv stuff
>>(kernel worked) with at-bleeding, at-testing, at-good and at-stable, all
>>with the same result.  Is this package missing, or do I need to move to
>>a newer kernel?
>>    
>>
>
>The packages are there, they're just in either bleeding or testing. What all 
>you need to do to get them installed has changed a bit over the last two 
>weeks, and I haven't had a chance to put together another update. Some issues 
>w/trying to merge the ivtv msp3400 and bttv msp3400 are still being shaken 
>down on the ivtv list, but eventually, we'll hopefully have just a 
>kernel-module-ivtv and kernel-module-video4linux rpm to install out of 
>stable, and be happy, but we're not quite there yet...
>
>If you temporarily enable bleeding, apt-get update apt-get install 
>kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.8-1.521 kernel-module-video4linux-2.6.8-1.521, you 
>*should* be okay, but might have to manually switch from using the v4l 
>msp3400 to the msp3400-ivtv included w/the ivtv kernel module. The merged v4l 
>version works for some people, and not for others...
>
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Excuse me, sir, but could you give a bit more detail on how I go about 
doing that switch?
Is it as easy as
#rmmod msp3400
modprobe msp3400-ivtv

??




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