[mythtv-users] ivtv in new fedora8 kernel causing problems?

[Rich West]

Kevin Plew wrote:
> I have the atrpms kmdl plugin installed- upgraded from FC6- maybe leftover
> from that.
>
>
> On Fri, April 11, 2008 09:53, Rich West wrote:
>   
>> Kevin Plew wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Thu, April 10, 2008 20:31, Rich West wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Greg Lake wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>>>> Scott Harris wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Anyone care to test with an updated kernel that was having this
>>>>>>>  issue?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I upgraded late yesterday and preliminary results are good.  I've
>>>>>>  only spent about 10 minutes testing on backend and frontend and
>>>>>> don't have the problem.  I upgraded to kernel 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1
>>>>>> SMP and am
>>>>>> running these versions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> When iup graded my sound problem went away also...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> I know this thread is a few days old, but I wanted to mention that
>>>> the scratchy/tinny audio problem still exists in the 2.6.24.4 fedora
>>>> kernel. I've got three PVR 150's, and the problem does not happen all
>>>> of the time, but frequent enough to be a pain (about 1/4 of the
>>>> recordings have this problem).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Rich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I am still having issues with a PVR-500 as well. Running the latest
>>> kernel and ivtv. Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> [root at kojiki ~]# rpm -qa | egrep "mythtv|ivtv" | sort
>>> ivtv-1.0.3-136.fc8 ivtv-firmware-20070217-17
>>> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.24.3-50.fc8-1.0.3-136.fc8
>>> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.24.4-64.fc8-1.0.3-136.fc8
>>> libmythtv-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-175.fc8 libmythtv-0.21_0-0.21-185.fc8
>>> mythtv-0.21-185.fc8 mythtv-backend-0.21-185.fc8 mythtv-docs-0.21-185.fc8
>>> mythtv-frontend-0.21-185.fc8 mythtv-setup-0.21-185.fc8
>>> mythtv-themes-0.21-185.fc8 perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-8.fc8
>>>       
>>> From what everyone has said, it looks to be a kernel/driver issue that
>>>
>>>       
>> did not appear until the 2.6.24 kernel release.  Some folks reported that
>> things were resolved by rolling back to the 2.6.23 kernel, but I
>> personally haven't tried that.
>>
>> One thing in your configuration that has me a little puzzled is the
>> ivtv-kmdl package.. The ivtv kernel module is now part of the main kernel
>> distribution, so I am not sure what the ivtv-kmdl and the ivtv packages
>> provide...
>>
>> -Rich


Personally, as part of a cleanup, I would remove the ivtv-kmdl packages
since the ivtv kernel module is included as part of the stock kernel.  I
believe they are up to v1.1.0 now..

-Rich