[mythtv-users] Ping Jarod. A Clue?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:27, Michale wrote:
> Hay,
>
> I think I might be on to something here.
>
> Looking at the GOSSAMER Archives, I came across this thread that you
> were part of:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/ivtv_fail
>ure_on_modprobe,_i2c_error_on_boot,_RH9_machine_P83888/
>
> In it you said,
>
> "What output do you get from "rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9"? I'm
> wondering which ivtv you're running. If it is the older one, I think
> you may have to manually download the base ivtv package (
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/ivtv/ ) and install by
> hand."
>
> Now, I did the "rpm -q" and this is what I got:
>
> [root at myth root]# rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9
> package ivtv-kmdl-2.4.20-20.9 is not installed
>
>
> Now... Thinking that, since I am running kernel 2.4.20-24_31, I
> modified the above:
>
> [root at myth root]# rpm -q ivtv-kmdl-2.4.24-31.9
> package ivtv-kmdl-2.4.24-31.9 is not installed
>
>
> So, then I went to SYNAPTIC and looked up my ivtv info it says that
> one of ivtv's dependencies is ivtv-kmdl-smp-2.4.20-24_31.rh9.at.  But
> synaptic says that the dependency is satisfied.
>
> To quote Tom Cruise...  "Now, I don't know what all that means, but
> it sounds pretty bad."


Try 'rpm -q ivtv-kmdl'.  Generally, you leave off the version numbers 
when querying RPM packages.

-JAC