[mythtv-users] ivtv lockups - how do I uninstall the driver?

[John Drescher]

On 9/27/07, Steve MacLaren <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2-3 times a week, mythbackend.log fills up with "ivtv driver not
> responding", while /var/log/messages fills up with ivtv DMA errors.  This
> causes my backend to completely lock up - no ssh, no ctl-alt-del, no
> response to anything other than the reset button.
>
> I would very much like to update the ivtv driver version - I have 0.10.1
> that came with Ubuntu Feisty.  The only problem is I have not been able to
> un-install the current driver.  The Ubuntu package manager allows
> un-installation of something called "ivtv-utils", but after removing that,
> the ivtv 0.10.1 driver still loads.
>
> Unfortunately, neither the howto at ivtvdriver.org, or help.ubuntu.com
> discuss un-installation.  I'm guessing I need to go and manually delete some
> files from the morass in /lib/modules/ , but I have no idea which ones.  I
> would appreciate any insight...
>
I would start with ivtv.ko.

On my system (64bit gentoo) it is at cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra

John