Well,
A small update. I realized that I had only commented out the
"RC_COLDPLUG=yes" line in /etc/conf.d/rc.
I then explicitly changed the line to "RC_COLDPLUG=no" per
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-519893-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-letting+udev+process+events-start-25.html.
This allowed me to boot into my kernel image with the appropriate
options set to emerge ivtv. So I emerged ivtv, and it built. So happy.
But then my system freezes when I "modprobe ivtv" or add ivtv to the
list of modules to load at boot time. ARGGGG.
I have already commented out the firmware udev rule per
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#Lock_up_when_loading_ivtv_module_.28udev_related.29.
I also deleted the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent file per the same post.
Any thoughts. I guess the next this I can do is downgrade udev per
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#udev_causes_ivtv_to_lock_the_system,
but I have been using a recent version of udev for the last six months.
My impression for various posts is that how udev, hotplug, and coldplug
interact are somewhat it flux, so some of the posts I looked at are
outdated. Any up to date reference on these?
Lost again.
Thanks
Mike
CTD wrote:
Hey
there,
I have been using gentoo as my distro on my mythtv system for about a
half a year, and now I am dead in the water.
I have a lengthy post at
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-694470.html,
but no ideas on how
to solve my issue have occurred.
Basics of my system:
gentoo
x86
PVR-500
PVR-350
So all of sudden (not sure what precipitated this issue), I cannot get
past udev coming up whenever I have my kernel configured as needed to
support the ivtv driver.
I have started from the default kernel configuration, made minor
changes for my system (processor, file systems, and SATA control), and
I can boot into that kernel. I should mention that at this time I have
unmerged the user space part of ivtv (emerge --unmerge ivtv). So I
then made the four changes per
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Gentoo:
- Device Drivers -> Multimedia Devices -> Video For Linux (CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV)
- Device Drivers -> I2C support (CONFIG_I2C)
- Device Drivers -> Multimedia Devices -> Enable Video For Linux
API 1 (DEPRECATED) (CONFIG_VIDEO_V4L1)
- Device Drivers -> Multimedia Devices -> Video capture
adapters -> Conexant cx23416/cx23415 MPEG encoder/decoder support (CONFIG_VIDEO_IVTV)
Build the kernel, boot into it, and my freezing issue occurs. It seems
that whatever I do that if I enable the above options, my kernel will
freeze. This after using different source versions and using genkernel.
As can be seen in my gentoo post, I have tried numerous troubleshooting
steps which have all results in no progress ( in my mind).
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!!!
On the bright side, at least I can boot into a system which is fully
functional except for creating new recordings.
Thanks
Mike
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