[mythtv-users] Fedora 15 and PVR-500

Duncan Brown mythtv at duncb.co.uk
Sun Jun 12 10:43:13 UTC 2011


On 12/06/2011 04:49, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 13:38, kanetse at gmail.com<kane.tse at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Just upgraded from Fedora 13 to Fedora 15, but my PVR-500 tuner isn't
>> working.
> Fedora 15 uses the 2.6.38 kernel, which (finally) removed the
> old v4l1 API.  As you note, the kernel itself supports the card,
> it is a problem with mythtv trying to use those old v4l1 APIs
> which the kernel no longer provides.  There are mythtv patches
> to use the current v4l2 API, and you will need to get a patched
> rpm built by your repo provider (atrpms), move to a repo that has
> the patched mythtv available (rpmfusion in updates-testing), or
> do your own builds.  For atrpms, there is a discussion of this
> at:  http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/atrpms/users/15386
> and AFAIK, it has not yet been rebuilt there (but since I do
> not use atrpms, my information may be obsolete; you should
> check with Axel).
>
> Gary
>
Looks like the new builds are up now. Not on F15 myself but would assume 
it should be fixed now

Dunc


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