[mythtv-users] HVR-950 and v4l-dvb-kernel issues

Brent brent at brentnorris.net
Wed Jan 31 13:07:23 UTC 2007


Adam Propeck wrote:
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> Brent wrote:
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> This is all from memory, but I think what I had to do was:
>
> Unload the ivtv modules and unload the video4linux modules.
> make install the dvb stuff and it should overwrite the video4linux module
> then modprobe ivtv back into the kernel and it will pull the new v4l 
> module
> then modprobe the em28xx_dvb
>
> I think that is how it worked for me. I believe the problem is that the
> v4l module you are running doesn't have any context for the dvb modules
> and thus won't let them load. Personally I got two bucks for Axel if he
> would start kmdl'ing the em28xx_dvb modules too.
>
> Ok ok. three bucks. :-)
>
> Brent
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> Ok, I rmmod'd ivtv and all the v4l modules I could see that were 
> loaded... Is that what you meant? Or did you mean to yum remove them? 
> Anyhow, then I did the make install and modprobed as you specified. 
> I'd kill for the ability to yum that module in there. I am about a day 
> from formatting everything and switching to Ubuntu as it looks a lot 
> easier to get this stuff added over there.
Yeah I just meant removing them from the running kernel, but I also 
think I rpm -e'ed them from my machine.   Man I guess I should have 
written this down.

Brent


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