[mythtv-users] Video devices on recent kernels

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:13 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
>> On 02/27/2013 02:49 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know about the HD-3000, but the driver for the PVR500 is
>>> CONFIG_VIDEO_IVTV. In 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig', you will find
>>> it under Device Drivers => Multimedia support => Media PCI Adapters =>
>>> Conexant cx23416/cx23415 MPEG encoder/decoder support. I also turn on
>>> the two options in that section.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer; however, that entry is not present for me in either
>> "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig". My guess is that it's now dependent
>> upon some other kernel option that is NOT set in my kernel, but I haven't a
>> clue what this "mystery option" might be. Any suggestions on this score?
>>
>
> For ivtv it may be CONFIG_MEDIA_PCI_SUPPORT=y
>
> although you could press / then type IVTV and menuconfig should give
> you the required dependent settings.
>

If that does not help I could send you my kernel .config if you want.

John