[mythtv-users] ivtv in new fedora8 kernel causing problems?

Mark Hutchinson mark at onnow.net
Thu Apr 3 17:23:51 UTC 2008


Scott Harris wrote:
> Mark Hutchinson wrote:
>   
>> I am having audio tinny'ness after an update on Fedora 8 with a  
>> Hauppauge 150 and a 500.
>> There were two updates that could have done this.  As I understand,  
>> ivtv drivers are now in the kernel.  Also an update was ivtv itself.
>> Here is the kernel version: 2.6.24.3-50.fc8
>>
>> Though, I still have the ivtv-kmdl installed as well:
>> ivtv-1.0.3-136.fc8
>> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.24.3-50.fc8-1.0.3-136.fc8
>>
>> Wondering on ideas to troubleshoot this.  I was thinking of  
>> blacklisting ivtv in hopes that it would black list the included  
>> kernel version and use the kmdl version that has worked in the past?
>>
>> How do you tell which supplied version is the offender?
>>
>>     
>
> I'm experiencing this as well.  kernel 2.6.24.3-34.fc8
>
> As a temporary fix I run this from cron every minute
>
> /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl  -d /dev/video1  --set-audio-input=1
>
> which fixes it for me (video1 is my pvr-150)
>
> Scott
>
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Thanks for that info.  I will try it.
I wonder what the underlying issue is in the kernel?  There was an 
earlier comment about a fix in 2.6.25, but I wonder if the kernel 
developers even know about this issue?




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