[mythtv-users] Fedora 9 caveat

David George david at thegeorges.us
Tue May 20 14:51:42 UTC 2008


On 5/20/2008 10:24 AM, Calvin Dodge wrote:
> If you're running Fedora and still using an old WinTV-Go PCI card to
> record shows, you probably want to hold off on upgrading to 9.
>
> At least, that's the conclusion I came to after upgrading my slave
> server. I got no video stream from the card when running the 2.6.25
> kernel which came with 9 (or the update kernel), while I DID have
> video (but no sound) running the last version 8 kernel.
>
> So now that system is back on 8, and working just fine. But I hope
> this is fixed before 8 falls off the update treadmill.
>
>   

Is Fedora 9 using the 2.6.25 kernel?  I haven't read the whole thread 
but it may be related to this post on the v4l mailing list about a WinTV 
regression in 2.6.25:

http://marc.info/?t=120863881000001&r=2&w=1

HTH,
David




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