Thanks for your help, I must admit I just read this and last night I tweaked the udev.rules file. I commented out anything that touched on v4l or firmware
With those commented out, things boot just fine now. Thanks for your help. I think tonight I will try you approach, because I think it would be best to Let udev work the way it was intended. If I fail to make 7.1 work I at least now have a fall back plan. Thank you Message: 5 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:36:12 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Gentoo Box hanging on boot. To: User discussion about IVTV <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Dne st?eda 04 ??jen 2006 21:39 Mike Daugird napsal(a): > I saw your post and I do not really understand how you "patched > ivtv-driver.h" ect.. ok., so - stepwise. Unpack the ivtv-0.7.0 driver: cd /usr/portage/media-tv/ivtv ebuild ivtv-0.7.0.ebuil unpack cd /var/tmp/portage/ivtv-0.7.0/work and apply the attached patch: patch -p0 < ivtv-0.7.0.diff it should be without any error messages. Then return back: cd /usr/portage/media-tv/ivtv ebuild ivtv-0.7.0.ebuild install ebuild ivtv-0.7.0.ebuild merge Or, you can do the same with ivtv-0.7.1 (preferred way, even when ivtv-0.7.0 is not in portage tree yet - you can prepare your own ebuild from ivtv-0.7.0.ebuild: copy the directory /usr/portage/media-tv/ivtv with whole content into /usr/local/portage (suppose PORDIRE_OVERLAY is defined in your /etc/make.conf as this dir) rename ivtv-0.7.0.ebuild to ivtv-0.7.1.ebuid create the digest: cd /usr/local/portage/media-tv/ivtv ebuild ivtv-0.7.1.ebuild digest And the rest is the same, i.e. unpacking, patching by the attached ivtv-0.7.1.diff, installing and merging. That is. Good luck. btw: my situation was: without the patch applied the boot process went smoothly until startup of udev, then it stopped, waited for a while and then the error message (something as like as 'error loading firmware') appeared. The whole computer was totally frozen - no mouse, no keyboard, no response via network. Only reset and power buttons worked... If your PC does something similar, this patch(es) might help as well. After the application of the patch it is so far ok., no lock-ups. -- Jan Taimr _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
