[MythDora] Trouble-video4linux-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-20061107-77.fc6.at.i386.rpm

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:31:38PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:38:49 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:16:22PM -0400, Dennis Hand wrote:
> > > So does this mean that ivtv will not autoload on it's own or will you
> > > still need to modprobe it?
> >
> > No, it means that at least ivtv-fb will break and that there is some
> > buggy helper module that also doesn't work, see the emails by Hans on
> > the ivtv lists.
> >
> > > I do agree with you, it does sound like ivtv/v4l/kernel are in a
> > > funk. Sounds like leaving out the video4linux may be a good option
> > > at this moment in time. Any idea if 2.6.20 will make it into FC6?
> >
> > It already did, even for FC5
> 
> Damn, Axel beat me to it. Yeah, Chuck pushed a 2.6.20 kernel yesterday. For 
> FC6, its kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6.

BTW do you have any insight why there are no xen packages? I'm just
moving everything to xen kernels. You know if there will be some
(soon)?

> > but I haven't checked whether the helper modules have been build
> > this time,
> 
> For the record, I believe that was an upstream boo-boo, not RH's. :D

I didn't blame RH. :) I assume it was never ever explicitely turned on
or off by RH and just followed vanilla defaults.

> It was the saa7127 that was missing, right? If my recollection is
> correct, 2.6.20 should have remedied this:
> 
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5246A=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA5249=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA6588=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7127=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134_ALSA=m
> CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134_DVB=m

Thanks, good news! :)

=> Denis, you don't need video4linux for 2.6.20.

> > or the patch for the broken helper module made it into this kernel rpm.
> 
> I *think* it did, but I'm not positive. It may have missed 2.6.20 though. 
> Definitely will be in 2.6.21, but that doesn't help right now...

Hans said it would make it into some minor 2.6.20.x release, perhaps
it's in there, FC6/FC5 are 2.6.20.3-rc1 based.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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