On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Just hard-upgraded the sis's Mythbox to SuSE 11.3 (2.6.34) and Myth .23.1 > > And, of course, because I didn't do my homework, I'm getting the > > *********************** WARNING *********************** > ivtv drivers prior to 0.10.0 can cause lockups when > reading VBI. Drivers between 0.10.5 and 1.0.3+ do not > properly capture VBI data on PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards. > > error. > > My ivtvctl says it's 0.10.5, in fact, and we're actually still locking the > machine. > > My *question*, though, is this: how do you upgrade the actual driver now > that it's in the mainline? The ivtvdriver.org howto doesn't actually > cover this, and, at 2.6.34, I don't have a lot of kernel upgrading left > to do -- I would *really* prefer not to have to go off the reservation, > kernel wise, if I don't have to. > > Can Andy or someone give me the 3 sentence precis of this, and once I've > got it done, I'll write it up for the wiki? > > ( Sorry this is poorly threaded, but my mailer won't let me at the > damn references header to unlink it... ) >
It has been years since I have debugged ivtv (it just works now!) anyways I believe the kernel driver would be a recent version just that the client applications ivtvctrl ... are ancient. Check your dmesg to verify that. There should be the driver version in the ivtv initialization line. John _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
