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

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:40:39PM -0700, Colin Armstrong wrote:
> Well, the reason I say that the .config was not included with the ATrpms
> kernel is because I tried to compile something and it failed because of
> now .config file. Now it easily could have been in a abnormal place, but
> at least for me it was not in the normal place.

It cannot be. The config files for the kernels cannot simply be put
under /usr/src/linux.../.config, as there are a dozen different kernel
config files. You can find the config file of your installed kernels
under /boot/config-something. Also in the kernel-source package under
/usr/src/linux.../configs.

This is usual Red Hat practice and you need to copy (and rename) that
file to were you were expecting a .config file to like and run the
usual clean/config/dep/bzImage/modules & 2x install commands.

> Also, sorry for the confusion about the kernel recompile; I didn't
> have to patch the ATrpms kernel with V4L2; I had to patch the stock
> kernel with V4L2. And about it made life worse; I meant that it just
> made it harder to compile software. Red Hat patches their kernels so
> much already that not too many things are done normally inside of a
> Red Hat kernel. For me at least, the extra patches that are in the
> ATrpms kernel made the kernel even more unstable than usual fore me.

Now that's quite unfair. That's also the first report about
any supposedly non-stability of the ATrpms kernels I got.

If you want v4l2 support simply install an appropriate ATrpms
kernel. Nothing needs to be done on the kernel side anymore. Then go
tune your XF86Config to make use of it and use v4l2 drivers ...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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