[mythtv-users] Re: ivtv problems with latest upgrade

Tim Vruwink vruwink at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 15:49:31 EDT 2005


Axel,

I installed the ivtv drivers via apt from the your website (atprms). 
I too thought that apt would grab the right version (i686 in my case).

I'll look into manually downloading the rpms and try from there.
+Tim

On 7/11/05, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:44:03PM -0500, Tim Vruwink wrote:
> > I recently upgrade my FC3 Kernel to the lastest version. Being new to 
> mythtv
> > and linux, I didn't realize that I would need to reload my ivtv kernel
> > module. I removed the old version of IVTV using apt-get remove 
> (firmware,
> > ivtv kmdl).
> >
> > Reloaded the IVTV drivers/module from ATRPMS. Did a depmod -a and then a
> > modprobe ivtv only to get the following error message:
> > FATAL: Error inserting ivtv (/lib/modules/2.6.11-
> > 1.35_FC3/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv.ko): Invalid module format
> >
> > ok, so I check dmesg | grep ivtv:
> > ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
> > ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' 
> should be
> > '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4'
> > ivtv: version magic '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4' 
> should be
> > '2.6.11-1.35_FC3 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4'
> >
> > So it appears that I have the wrong module installed. Doing a uname -a
> > reveals:
> > Linux id 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:18 EDT 2005 i686 athlon 
> i386
> > GNU/Linux
> >
> > So I should actually have i686 version. What is 4Kstacks however? Why am 
> I
> > downloading the incorrect ivtv drivers from atrpms? Should I just edit
> > grub.conf and comment out the latest kernel (.35) and go back to (.27)?
> 
> How did you download the i586 version, manually or with apt? apt is
> usually clever enough to get the proper arch for you.
> 
> Remove this package and reinstall the i686 one.
> 
> > This is a plain FC3 Hauppauge pvr-250 box. Used the Wilson guide to get 
> it
> > up and running and absolutely love it. It's been running great for 5 
> months
> > until this latest problem. I would like to avoid rebuilding the box if
> > possible.
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net <http://ATrpms.net>
> 
> 
>
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