On 2/18/06, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > in the last weeks I have seen several bug reports on the usage of ivtv > on Fedora Core/RHEL. I just edited the wiki pages to reflect this: > > http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php?title=Howto%3AFedora&diff=1881&oldid=1485 > > To sum it up: > > o ATrpms always shipped modules that would conflict with kernel or v4l > with a different name (e.g. foo was named foo-ivtv). The default > setup was therefore to use what the kernel provides. > > o If a user required the use of the ivtv supporting module he would > have to add an "alias foo foo-ivtv" line to divert the module to the > ivtv one. Almost all modules were required until 0.4.x. > > o With 0.4.x some modules/fixes made it into the kernel, ivtv detects > this and doesn't build them (for newer kernels). > > That means that if you previously had to use alias lines to enforce > the usage of ivtv's versions of these modules, now the same lines > disable those modules completely if ivtv doesn't ship them anymore. > > Check your ivtv's kmdl contents with > > rpm -ql ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r` > > If there is more than ivtv.ko in them (there currently still is) you > *can* use alias lines to override the kernel's with ivtv's. > > Make sure you don't have alias lines pointing to non-existent ivtv > kernel modules! > > Future kernels will have even better support for ivtv, so always > perform the above check when upgrading your kernel (e.g. 2.6.16 will > most probably have everything in place, so ivtv package will have no > supporting modules at all anymore => no alias lines at all, too).
Yes - I got bitten by this when I upgraded kernel and ivtv on Friday. I always test the decoding after an upgrade (usually even after a reboot), but didn't think to test the tuning. Fortunately there are informative error messages in /var/log/messages, so once I realised it was broken, fixing it was straightforward. Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
