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

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:03:47PM -0700, Schlaegel wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Schlaegel <smprta07 at schlaegel.com> wrote:
> > Scratch the success story. It turns out that both of my systems now
> > suffer from the helium sound and stuttering video that others are
> > reporting.
> >
> > I try to stay with rpms, but the fix seems to include manually
> > compiling a kernel module and installing it, so I am now giving that a
> > shot.
> 
> 
> It seems that manually compiling and installing the saa7127 kernel
> module included with the kernel fixes the problem.
> 
> As reported here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/35059
> 
> Can we get a kernel module rpm for this?

I think that needs to be addressed in ivtv upstream, let me explain:
If I now create a kmdl for saa7127 based on kernel 2.6.21 it will
break on 2.6.20 or 2.6.22 just like the v4l kmdls break as well.

So it would mean that for each kernel I would have to create a
different source form the kmdl. This doesn't scale and would mean that
the saa7127 modules would lag behind kernel updates quite some time.

Putting it back in the ivtv sources will ensure that ivtv and saa7127
play nice together.

Ideally I'd like to understand why the v4l kmdls don't offer the
required saa7127 functionality. Maybe it was just a buggy cut.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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