[ATrpms-users] F7 mythtv issues

[Bert Van Kets]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:41:08AM +0200, Bert Van Kets wrote:
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>> Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:26:05AM +0200, Bert Van Kets wrote:
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>>>> I used to have the helium voice problem in MythDora too during my beta 
>>>> testing.
>>>> Simply uninstalling video4linux did the trick. This has been reported 
>>>> many times on the mythTV users list.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't had time to find the actual cause. Just wanted to report my 
>>>> findings.
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>>>>         
>>> Hm, we now have opposite recommendations. :/
>>>
>>> (BTW the pure video4linux package doesn't affect anything, it's just
>>>  the *-kmdls that can make a difference here)
>>>
>>> Bert would you like to try Marcel's setup as is? E.g no ivtv-kmdl, but
>>> only video4linux*-kmdl.
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>> I still have the latest beta version of Mythdora running, which is using 
>> FC6. That's the version I had the helium problem on.
>> Is this test relevant then?
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> I think probably not, it really depends on the age of the kernel and I
> don't even remember what the beta version of Mythdora used as a
> kernel, but quite certainly not 2.6.21. Most probably there are no
> kmdls anymore for the kernel used there (kmdls get removed once the
> kernel gets removed from updates-released, as they are of no use and
> yum gets confused by their presence).
>
> OTOH the nice thing about the video4linux-kmdls is that they should
> work as good and as bad on any platform they build on. So in theory
> you *should get similar results as Marcel.
>
>   
>> If needed, I can do the test this weekend.
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>
> It would be better to test on something newer like the latest FC6/F7
> kernels. As said you won't be able to find matching kmdls anyway on an
> FC6 kernel that doesn't exist on Fedora's repos anymore.
>   
I was planning to upgrade this machine to the latest MythDora and then 
do a full update. I'll try to move this to the top of my ToDo list.
Once that is done I'll let you know.
>   
>> Bert
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>>>> Marcel Janssen wrote:
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>>>>> On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>>>>> You reinstalled the latest packaged versions? Could you give a list for
>>>>>> posterity? There have been some people occasionally complaining about
>>>>>> the Helium issue and that could help them.
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>>>>> This is what I have installed now :
>>>>>
>>>>> video4linux-ivtv-kmdl-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7-20070420-80.fc7
>>>>> perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-8.fc7
>>>>> ivtv-firmware-20070217-13.at
>>>>> video4linux-kmdl-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7-20070420-80.fc7
>>>>>
>>>>> The video4linux package itself is not installed
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm have no idea what did the trick though.
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