[mythtv-users] Mythtv install in Fedora - bttv driver package not found

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Dec 27, 2003, at 00:13, Matt Mueller wrote:

> I'm in the process of installing mythtv over Fedora using Jarod's 
> guide and am having issues installing the bttv driver.  I'm 
> attempting: apt-get install bttv-kmdl-$KERNEL, which is returning "E: 
> Couldn't find package bttv-kmdl-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl_25.rhfc1.at".  I 
> searched the users and dev mailing list but couldn't find anything.

Odd... From the output, it looks like you're running the 
2.4.22-1.2129.nptl_25.rhfc1.at kernel, but what is your proc type? You 
mention i386, are you running the i386 kernel rpm? And if so, why? That 
would definitely cause problems...

> I tried freenode.net, but couldn't get an answer(could of been the 
> fact it is 2:00 am CST)

I really should hang out there more, but I just don't have the time... 
:-\

> and in looking at http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/bttv/ I see 
> some rpm's, but I don't see any i386 builds.  Should there be?

No. Any machine that has to run an i386 processor isn't going to be 
powerful enough to do much of anything useful (at least from a mythtv 
perspective) with a bttv card.

> The builds that are there also contain the text "-0.9.12-32.rhfc1.at" 
> and I don't know what affect that has.

That's the bttv version number. It shouldn't be a factor here.

> At this point I don't know where else to look.  Jarod's guide is great 
> so far, and I've tried to follow it to the "t"; so I don't know if I 
> did something wrong.

If your processor is one that can actually handle MythTV, it has to be 
at least an i686 or athlon class processor, i686 being PII-P4 & 
Celerons, athlon being Athlons (duh) and Durons, and you should be 
running the corresponding i686 or athlon kernel, in which case there 
certainly are bttv kernel modules available, and they should be 
installable...

If you're already running the right kernel, I haven't a clue why the 
apt-get is failing. You might try an apt-get update, then try the 
install again. Its possible the package was updated between the time 
you pulled your last apt-get update and now (the bttv modules there are 
dated 12/21...). Other than that, no definitive answer at the moment.

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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