The first problem was that yum chose the latest kernel I had installed
rather than the one I was using, and the second problem (that nvidia's
drivers didn't have an rpm for the latest kernel) was fixed now that I
went to install it again.

On 8/12/06, Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:14:54PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Harrison J. Kelly writes:
> >
> > >>You're better off using someone else's prepackaged Myth/ivtv binaries.
> > >Sorry, I didn't mention - I used the ATrpms repository. Do you know of
> > >any others?
> >
> > You must've grabbed the wrong set of packages.  atrpms' packages work.
> > They'll need some post-install tweaking, but mostly they're right.
> >
> > The major problem here is that rpm/yum is simply not smart enough to select
> > and install the right packages for you.  Neither rpm, nor yum, has the
> > logic to install the packages with the matching modules for your kernel
> > version.
>
> I've been working on adding support to various depsolvers to get that
> fixed. yum and apt will be the first with this support, smart will
> follow later (smart has less issues as due to its minimal install
> scheme it never choses to reinstall old or unrelated kernels).
>
> Actually yum support will already be in the next site update and will
> automatically be installed if you use atrpms-package-config.
>
> > I forget the naming conventions in atrpms.  I believe that the kernel
> > module packages are named kmdl-<app>-<kver-release>, so you'll probably
> > need to grab the kmdl-ivtv and kmdl-lirc packages that match your kernel
> > version, and install them manually.
>
> It's foo-kmdl-`uname -r`
>
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>
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