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

[Kevin Page]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:02 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Could you perhaps shortly repeat the solution here? So people googling
> this will not just find just a reference to another list. Thanks!

Yes, of course ;)

I found that I have to load saa7127 _before_ ivtv and ivtv-fb - if I
don't (e.g. if I loaded saa7127 by hand as implied by some howtos) I
suffer the "diagonal mess" problem on my output.

The following modprobe.conf entry also ensures saa7127 is loaded first
on boot:
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe saa7127; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb

Using saa7127 from the video4linux-kmdl package I could see the
test_image, though it looked as though it didn't have vertical lock (a
"rolling" image). I've reported this on ivtv-devel:
http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-devel/2007-June/004778.html

Rebuilding the stock F7 kernel with saa7127 included as a module gave me
a stable test_image.

There seems to be progress on re-including saa7127 in Fedora kernels:
--- Additional Comments From davej 2007-06-05 14:07 EST ---
fixed in cvs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242503

which should make things easier going forward.

Regards,

kev.