Kirk Bocek wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>   
>> rpmbuild --rebuild --define "kmdl_userland 0" *.src.rpm
>>
>> will produce a kmdl for the running kernel.
>>     
>
>   
>
>     Well that's cool. I wasn't aware of this. On my older CentOS
>     4/ivtv host I was
>     forced to install a custom kernel and then manually compile the
>     ivtv driver
>     against it. Imagine my joy when CentOS 5 employed a kernel that
>     Hans is
>     actually supporting!
>
> I think I am close but I do not quite understand the udev part.  I have
> gone back to using the standard CentOS kernel as I really didn't need
> reiserfs that much anyway and I successfully installed the ivtv drivers
> using yum from the ATrpms repository.  One thing I expected and maybe I
> expected too much is that it would also handle the udev setup.  Am I
> wrong about that?  Apparently because it is not being handled.  I have
> read and reread the howto on the ivtv site but don't necessarily
> understand what I need to do.
>
>
>
> I tried runnning udevinfo as instructed in the howto but I do not seem to 
> have the
> udevinfo command installed?  Do I need to install some of the
> development packages to get that?
>
>
>
> So bottom line my question is what if anything must I do in udev to get the 
> video device installed?  Do I have to write a udev rule and if so does anyone 
> happen to have a sample for a PVR150 I could look at?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>   
>> Try it and if it doesn't work 100% as advertized or you are just
>> interested in the mechanics get on one of atrpms-users or atrpms-devel
>> lists and you'll get more kmdl theory ;)
>>     
>
> <whine>But that would take work.</whine> Where's my "Do What I Want" button? 
> :)
>
> Kirk Bocek
>
>
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