[ATrpms-users] mythtv-0.23.1-241.el5 doesn't support PVR-500?

[sdkovacs]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/6/2010 9:42 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jason Haar <Jason.Haar at trimble.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/06/2010 11:15 PM, Jonathan Martens wrote:
>>>> On 6-12-2010 10:51, Jason Haar wrote:
>>>>> ...but it didn't. With just video4linux (and a reboot), there's no
>>>>> /dev/video* devices at all. What kernel modules need to be loaded to
>>>>> "emulate" ivtv within video4linux? (which doesn't have a ivtv.ko)
>>>>
>>>> As I said you also need the video4linux kernel modules, from above I
>>>> get the impression that you did not install the kmdl. Am I right?
>>>>
>>> Nope, I do have it - video4linux is a stub to trigger the install of a
>>> kmdl rpm - I do have video4linux-kmdl-`uname -r` installed. There are
>>> tonnes of kernel module files associated with it under
>>> /lib/module/`uname -r`, but no ivtv.ko file.
>>>
>>> Do you have such a file, or is it named something else? ie what
>>> video4linux module do you have on your system, that makes it all work
>>> for you? That's what I need to find out
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> You gotta use the kmdl (not available anymore) from 20090907.
>> It is the only one that works for my IR control and still has ivtv:
>>
>> video4linux-kmdl-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5-20090907-91.el5.x86_64.rpm
>>
>>
>> [cascavel:~/RPMSEL54/kernel/kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1] lstrpm
>> video4linux-kmdl-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5-20090907-91.el5.x86_64.rpm | grep ivtv
>> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv
>> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.ko
>
> I can't address your IR issues, but 20100401 *does* have ivtv and it's working
> for me on a PVR-500:
>
> $ rpm -ql video4linux-kmdl-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5-20100401-94.el5 |grep ivtv
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.26.1.el5/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.ko
>

Not for me. It's missing.

[root at mythbox ~]# rpm -ql
video4linux-kmdl-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5-20100401-94.el5 | grep ivtv
[root at mythbox ~]#