[ATrpms-users] yum install for ivtv failing w/Missing Dependency

[Steve B.]

>From: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>
>Reply-To: ATrpms user list <atrpms-users at ATrpms.net>
>To: "Steve B." <bigboote66 at hotmail.com>
>CC: atrpms-users at ATrpms.net
>Subject: Re: [ATrpms-users] yum install for ivtv failing w/Missing 
>Dependency
>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:50:46 +0200
>
>On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:40:13AM -0500, Steve B. wrote:
> > Thanks for the info.  As I'm a complete Linux newbie (at least as far as
> > setting up the boxes goes), can you tell me how I tell yum to get the 
>0.8
> > release instead of the 0.7 one?
>
>[...]
>
>You can build ivtv yourself. You will need a recent videodev2.h file
>to inject for ivtvctl to pick up.

Well, I managed to figure out how to install the 0.8 release from the 
atrptms.net site using rpm, but that also failed with the "Missing 
Dependency" error, plus an additional one (sorry, I don't have the text now, 
as you will see later).  I then tried to build the ivtv drivers directly 
from their source distribution, which seemed to work, as I was able to get 
the card recognized by the OS.  However, when I tried to test the capture of 
the card (using the "cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg" suggestion), 
my machine power cycled unceremoniously.

I don't know if I'm just unlucky that I chose the week to try to set up this 
system when the distributions are in a state of flux or what.  As I was not 
sure when things will be stable again, I just punted on the whole Fedora 
plan and am in the process of setting up the system using KnoppMyth.

Thanks for you time, in any case.

-Steve