[mythtv-users] Re: Has anyone setup v4l2 succesfully?

[Graeme Woollett]

That's fine as long as the distro kernel supports your card.  I have a 
SAA7134 based tv card that isn't (as of 2.4.20-19.9 (redhat)).  The 
maintainer at bytesex.org says that
due to the backporting that RH does in their kernels the v4l patch won't 
work with them.  He suggests that you use a vanilla kernel instead.
Unfortunetly then you lose all the goodes e.g m/b hardware monitoring 
included in the distro release. I failed miserably with 2.4.21 to patch 
this in.  I guess I'll just have to wait until 2.6 comes out.  Does 
anyone have a .config for 2.6-test* for an athlon that works?

>
> .config files are included with the kernel-source packages for ATrpms 
> kernels, just like the stock Red Hat kernels. There is also a copy of 
> your running kernel .config file in /boot, which does come with the 
> kernel package. Look again, I think you are mistaken. There was never 
> any need to recompile the ATrpms kernels either. They are already 
> patched with v4l2 support.
>