No problem. I am not an expert, but we will try to get it working with FC3.
I know that when I enabled the ATRPMS testing branch I got a version of 0.4.3 testing the other day. I am still waiting for the 0.4.3 final version, but the testing version made my tuner work much better. I am running a PVR-500 with the new tuner Samsung TCPN 2121P30A tuner chip by the way. At this point, I think we should start over. Let's see what ivtv packages you have on your system. Run 'rpm -qa ivtv'. I get the following: rpm -qa ivtv* ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-8.at ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-5.at ivtv-firmware-1.8a-8.at ivtv-kmdl-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp-0.4.2-102.rhfc4.at ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-8.at ivtv-0.4.2-102.rhfc4.at ivtv-kernheaders-0.4.2-102.rhfc4.at Your list could have more or less entries in it; just make a note of the installed packages. I would then do a 'yum remove <package name here>' for all the ivtv packages you have on your system. So for mine that would look like: yum remove ivtv-firmware-dec yum remove ivtv-firmware-audio yum remove ivtv-firmware yum remove ivtv-kmdl-$KVER (if this returns an error, you can type 'echo "export KVER=\`uname -r\`" >> /etc/profile.d/kver.sh' at a prompt and re-run the yum remove command again) yum remove ivtv-firmware-enc yum remove ivtv yum remove ivtv-kernheaders Once you have everything removed, walk through the IVTV Fedora Howto page at http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Fedora You already have the ATRPMS stable branch so you can skip step 1. Since you have a PVR-350, you can skip the ivtv-firmware-audio step too. I added the ivtv-firmware-dec and ivtv-firmware-enc because I saw them on another howto on another site and my install is working right now, so if you don't get it working with the base stuff the howto says, try adding those 2. Before you run the last step, I always have 2 windows open on my desktop so I can do a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' before I do a 'modprobe ivtv'. This helps me a little because I can then find whether or not my modprobe worked immediately. If for some reason you still can't get everything up and running, we have to find out where your firmware directory is. You said in a prior email that you were sure you have hotplug. The firmware howto (http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware) talks about looking for a firmware.agent file that will have the FIRMWARE_DIR line. Make sure to find that file and verify it matches where the RPM put the firmware. Mine was in /etc/firmware on my 2.6.15 kernel. It said my firmware directory is in /lib/firmware. On my install, /lib/firmware has 4 symbolic links pointing to /lib/modules/*. It looks like this: v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw -> /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw -> /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg -> /lib/modules/v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg v4l-cx25840.fw -> /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM So, if you install what I did, they should be in the same place. I get no firmware loading errors, only a warning about the firmware version I am running. Well, that's a start for you at least. I hope reinstalling will help you out. I didn't have the ivtv howtos the first time I tried it and was going from the (old) ivtv section on the Fedora Mythtv install page. Hope this helps. My only worry is that since you are running such an old kernel you may have trouble finding the ivtv-kmdl package for your kernel. If you don't have it, then ivtv won't work. -Don ---------------- Yes, you did ask, sorry about that. I'm trying to migrate an existing system from a bttv input to a PVR-350. I don't want to upgrade the OS unless I have to... I've had issues in the past trying to do a Fedora Core upgrade of a working system, so I usually don't do so unless it required. I know there are woking FC3 boxes out there, I'm just trying to learn the recepie :-). Ans yes also to your second question, I am using the RPMs. I'm installing via yum from atrpms stable branch. Would the testing branch work better? I tried enabling testing once a long time ago and had issues, but it was before I got all this working (FC3/bttv/myth) in the first place. Thanks for your help, -Bill _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
