I had a similiar problem with freevo but my issue stemmed from running
a 2.4 kernel instead fo a 2.6. after upgrading to a 2.6 kernel the
problem went away. I have not idea if this helps or not.

evan

On 1/15/06, Geert Decorte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A short clarification from my side could shine a light onto the case.
>
>
> I have a epia MII1000 Nehemiah mobo with a Hauppage MCE500 and went for
> the epios distribution as the tool for the job. (epios is a gentoo based
> distro with specific epia motherboard optimalisations)
>
> This was the snapshot I've used for the install
> http://www.epios.net/viewtopic.php?t=339
>
> Basicly installing would be as simple as emerging and configuring ivtv and
> freevo. This should be enough for resolving dependencies.
>
> The portage tree of epios has only freevo 1.5.2 available, but this should
> do the trick for most dependencies.
>
> Afterwards, I've downloaded 1.5.4 directly from sourceforge, unpacked it,
> and installed. Didn't see any error in the install.
>
> Now I checked .../freevo-1.5.4/build/lib/freevo/tv/v4l2.py
> And as Jason stated, it didn't contained the obstructing line.
> But the installed version did contain it.
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/tv/v4l2.py
>
> So it should be the v4l2.py version installed by 1.5.2 which didn't get up
> to date after installing 1.5.4
>
> The only problem should be in updating 1.5.4 from a prior (unused?)
> version or something specific with the distro I'm using.
>
> I've followed the installation instructions literaly
> "To install Freevo, run 'python setup.py install' as root."
>
> So if there are files who didn't went up-to-date probably I need to copy
> them manualy from the build directory? Is there a clear way to check these
> out?
>
> This is the output when rebuilding the setup of 1.5.4
>
> epios freevo-1.5.4 # python setup.py install
> checking for mmpython...   found
> checking for pygame...     found
> checking for Image...      found
> checking for twisted...    found
> running install
> running build
> running build_py
> running build_scripts
> running install_lib
> byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/tv/ivtv.py to ivtv.pyc
> byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/tv/v4l2.py to v4l2.pyc
> byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/freevo/plugins/mixer.py to
> mixer.pyc
> running install_scripts
> changing mode of /usr/bin/freevo to 755
> running install_data
>
>
> Geert
>
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 18:49 +0100, Robert Winder wrote:
> >> Jason and Gerrit Hannaert already looked into it. Both provided a patch
> >> on the
> >> userlist at 10/11 june 2005. Both patches didn't make it in python 2.4
> >> bugfix
> >> release freevo 1.5.4 I did have a private correspondence with Geert
> >> Decorte who
> >> experienced the following python 2.4 error
> >
> > Assuming by "both patches" you mean the two patches you attached that
> > were posted here some time ago, both of those _did_ make it into the
> > Freevo 1.5.4 bugfix release.
> >
> > It would definitely have been a major SNAFU if they didn't, because the
> > entire point of the 1.5.4 release was to include these fixes. :)  Just
> > to make sure I wasn't losing my sanity, I redownloaded the 1.5.4 tarball
> > from sf.net and indeed these patches were correctly included.
> >
> >> r = fcntl.ioctl(self.device, long(QUERYCAP_NO), val)
> >> OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int
> >
> > This line of code doesn't exist anywhere in Freevo 1.5.4.  It shouldn't
> > happen.
>
>
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>
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