I just upgraded to FC3 (from FC1) yesterday.  My main reason for
procrastinating was the LVM1 to LVM2 switch, which should have gone ok
except for some metadata issue which caused vgscan to function
correctly, but to exit with a non-zero exit code which prevented
vgchange from being run.  That's totally OT, I know, but still.

I decided to give the all Axel RPM route a try and ended up with:
kernel-2.6.9-1.667
ivtv-0.2.0-56_rc2z.rhfc3.at
ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at
ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at
kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.667-0.2.0-56_rc2z.rhfc3.at

I added this to sysctl.conf:
vm.min_free_kbytes=16384

...because of some memory allocation errors I saw.  Also, I had to make
sure that tveeprom was loaded before eeprom.  I guess in the past I had
some modules.conf statements that handled that but needed to add
something similar to modprobe.conf.  

My last concern is that ivtv isn't loaded automatically when mythbackend
tries to access /dev/video*.  In the past I think that's how it worked.
I can just modprobe ivtv in the mythbackend startup script but every
time I upgrade mythbackend I'll have to remember to change the startup
script.  Once ivtv is loaded udev creates the device files appropriately
and mythbackend can access them.  Am I missing some FC3/Linux-2.6 magic
here?  

I guess most of this post is OT, but back to the ivtv stuff. I haven't
seen a peep out of ivtv since I completed upgrading (or at least nothing
indicating a problem) but I've only recorded a few shows.  I have a
pretty heavy recording schedule though so hopefully in a few days I'll
drop back in and let you know if I've had any issues.

Thanks to everyone (particularly Chris) for responding to and helping
with my ivtv issues in the past!

-- 
Aran Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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