[mythtv-users] MythTV Does Not See PVR-250 - Must Fix Before Wife Returns!

[Mario Limonciello]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 04/10/2011 07:33 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > On 4/10/2011 12:30 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> >> On 11-04-10 03:11 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> >>> So the best option is to downgrade to linux-2.6.36, where everything
> still works,
> >>> and rebuild mythtv against that kernel.  Pass on 2.6.38 for now.
> >> Mmm.. to contradict myself now:  best option is probably to just get
> >> a newer snapshot of mythtv-0.24-fixes.  The latest available builds fine
> >> on 2.6.38.2, and has working IVTV support.
> >>
> >> I just tried this here, upgrading the kernel to 2.8.38.2,
> >> and then rebuilding mythtv, and my PVR-250 works.
> > OK, I think I finally got a current snapshot of 0.24-fixes.  Finally
> > figured out how to download a tarball from the github page and unpacked
> > it.  I got a directory named "MythTV-mythtv-2a9d9f5".  From my git
> > reading, the end of that directory name is the first part of a SHA1 hash
> > that identifies the branch?
> >
> > Anyway, I navigated to mythtv within that directory and ran
> > "./configure" as root.  Got this output:
> >
> > mythfe01 mythtv # ./configure
> > WARNING: disabling Python bindings; missing MySQLdb
> ...
> > Video4Linux sup.          no
> > ivtv support              no
> ...
> > So it appears that this won't build with Video 4 Linux or ivtv support.
> > Plus the python warning makes me suspicious as well.
> >
> > So it appears that either I am missing something in my kernel config or
> > I haven't gotten the 0.24-fixes snapshot correctly.
>
> Regardless of which kernel you're running, if you have libraries that
> were built with kernel headers that don't include V4L, you don't have
> V4L support.
>
> As far as the Python bindings go, do as it says...  Install the missing
> pre-requisite module.
>
> 2.6.38 (which the OP indicated they were running above) doesn't include V4L
anymore, only V4L2.  There is a patch on #9595 that adds V4L2 header support
to mythtv builds, but it's posted as reversed.  You can apply it as patch -R
just fine.

The ticket is locked on trac so it's not possible to post a fixed patch.
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