I haven't tried the lastest drivers because I gave up long ago and
run my Slackware with the 2.6.10 kernel. I now enjoy my PVR350 and 500
in the same box.
Thank you Chris, Isaac, and all!
Paul
On 8/27/05, Philip Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Scott A. Conway wrote:
>
> >I get some stupid error with the later 0.3x series drivers about being
> >unable to load the newly installed kernel drivers that says this:
> >
> >modprobe: Too deep recursion in module dependencies!
> >modprobe: Circular dependency? msp3400 ivtv
> >Abort
>
> For some reason depmod concludes that msp3400 and ivtv have symbols that
> the other uses. Guessing how depmod works, I assume this is due to
> symbols which are undefined ("U") in one which are available functions
> (text, or "T") in the other. Hopefully it's possible to determine which
> symbols by running a combination of the following and similar:
>
> $ nm -g msp3400.o |grep ' T ' # symbols exported by msp3400
> $ nm ivtv.o |grep ' U ' # symbols used by ivtv
> $ depmod -v # might be rather chatty
> $ modprobe -v ivtv
>
> As far as I can see on my 2.6.12 system, the modules.dep file which
> depmod writes doesn't have either module depending on the other. Looking
> at the code, ivtv-driver.c specifically requests msp3400 via
> ivtv_request_module(). msp3400 does nothing exciting, so I'd try looking
> into why modprobe is persuaded into a loop for its dependencies.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
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