[ATrpms-users] Packages required for working ivtv-fb

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:09:49AM +0100, Kevin Page wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just installed a Fedora 7 machine with a PVR-350, which I'm trying
> to get working using atrpms - I think I'm suffering from a combination
> of the newness of Fedora 7 and an complete unfamiliarity with the
> hardware, ivtv drivers, and atrpms packaging.
> 
> Do I have the following correct:
> 
> 1) There are two packages which provide ivtv.ko (video4linux-ivtv-kmdl
> and ivtv-kmdl), but only one (ivtv-kmdl) provides ivtv-fb.ko
> 
> 2) To use the MPEG-2 decoder / tv-out on the PVR-350, I also need to use
> saa7127.ko
> 
> 3) saa7127.ko is only available in the video4linux-kmdl package. The
> video4linux-ivtv-kmdl package is provided for compatibility with
> video4linux-kmdl, but doesn't contain ivtv-fb.ko
> 
> 4) With video4linux-kmdl and ivtv-kmdl installed (but not
> video4linux-ivtv-kmdl) I have the requisite kmods to use tv-out, but the
> output exhibits the characteristics described here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org/msg05862.html
> This suggests an incompatibility between these two packages?
> 
> Is there any (other) way to install ivtv-fb.ko and saa7127.ko using
> atrpms?

Well, the problem is not at the package level, but at source
level. ivtv-fb's requirements may not be fulfilled by the kenrel
(haven't checked on F7 whether that's true) and the only way to
bolter up the kernel is to either rbeuild your own kernel, or supply
v4l kernel modules.

You should try to address this on ivtv-devel (which is actually the
same server, but Hans Verkuil is found only there :).

> I was eventually looking to use the PVR-350 tv-out with MythTV - are
> ivtv_xdriver packages planned for Fedora 7 - am I just too early to the
> party?

It fails with

In file included from ivtvhw.c:74:
/usr/include/sys/mman.h:58: error: conflicting types for 'xf86mmap'
/usr/include/xorg/xf86_ansic.h:265: error: previous declaration of 'xf86mmap' was here

I brought it up with Fedora's X people, but they say ivtv_xdriver
needs fixing.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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