[mythtv-users] Mythtv, Gentoo, DVB and 2.6.28 kernel not compiling

[Tom Dexter]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:08 PM, jk90090 <jk90090 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom Dexter wrote:
>>
>> I'm running on Gentoo, but haven't upgraded to 2.6.28 yet. Looking at
>> that patch, it certainly appears that it will get past that version
>> check.  However the big question I have is whether DVB_API_VERSION 5
>> in 2.6.28 is actually supported.  I see no mention of it searching the
>> dev list.
>>
>> I'm surprised at how many Gentoo users seem to use unstable kernels,
>> let alone the unstable version of portage itself (which is required
>> for the mythtv-0.21_p19046 ebuild due to its use of EAPI 2)....more
>> bold than I care to be.
>>
>> Tom
>
> In all fairness to Gentoo users, 2.6.28.1 is the current stable kernel,
> regardless of which ebuild is marked as stable for Gentoo x86, 64, or
> other...  I particularly moved to it because I wanted to start some testing
> with ext4 (bugs or not).
>
>
> Of course, I've gone even farther and loaded up Xorg 1.5, which seems stable
> for MythTV use.
> The Lirc 0.8.3 ebuild doesn't like the 2.6.28 kernel, as it has an oops
> often, however the unstable ebuild 0.8.4 works perfectly to date...
>
> Yes, I'm a little more bleeding edge, but I'm willing to find and report the
> bugs that need fixing...
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Actually I had to move to the unstable lirc 0.8.4 just to upgrade to
2.6.27.  lirc 0.8.3 wouldn't even load the kernel module, as reported
here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-723269-highlight-.html

Tom