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

[Kevin R. Page]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 11:35 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: 
> ivtv-fb's requirements may not be fulfilled by the kenrel
> (haven't checked on Fedora 7 whether that's true)

saa7127 still isn't built by default in the F7 kernel.

> 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've read some more of the list archives...

It seems I shouldn't expect ivtv.ko and ivtv-fb.ko from the ivtv-kmdl to
work with v4l drivers from video4linux-kmdl, because if you are using
the video4linux-kmdl package you should be using the corresponding
video4linux-ivtv-kmdl. Correct?

Do you build ivtv-kmdl against the modules in video4linux-kmdl, or the
stock F7 v4l drivers? If the latter, I don't think I should presume
ivtv-fb should work.

As far as I can tell, this is because as v4l2 has developed, ivtv has
been subsumed into it; before you created the video4linux-ivtv-kmdl
package ivtv.ko was included in video4linux-kmdl.

Unfortunately, this transition leaves ivtv-fb temporarily orphaned: as a
framebuffer device, it shouldn't really live in v4l?


Given that ivtv-kmdl can't be installed with video4linux-ivtv-kmdl, and
the F7 kernel doesn't include saa7127, wouldn't it be ok to build
saa7127 in the ivtv-kmdl for those that don't want to use the newer v4l
packages, given that ivtv-fb _requires_ saa7127 to work?

I guess the alternative is to file a bug on the missing saa7127 in
Fedora bugzilla - I'll do this if you think it the correct way to
proceed.


> It fails with
> In file included from ivtvhw.c:74:
[snip]
> I brought it up with Fedora's X people, but they say ivtv_xdriver
> needs fixing.

Yes, I found the bug you filed at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229553
http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-devel/2007-February/004453.html

Do you know of any further progress since February? If not, I'll try and
build it myself, and report errors to ivtv-devel.

Thanks for your help,

Regards,

kev.