---- Original Message ----- From: "John Drescher" <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just hard-upgraded the sis's Mythbox to SuSE 11.3 (2.6.34) and Myth > > .23.1 > > > > And, of course, because I didn't do my homework, I'm getting the > > > > *********************** WARNING *********************** > > ivtv drivers prior to 0.10.0 can cause lockups when > > reading VBI. Drivers between 0.10.5 and 1.0.3+ do not > > properly capture VBI data on PVR-250 and PVR-350 cards. > > > > error. > > > > My ivtvctl says it's 0.10.5, in fact, and we're actually still > > locking the machine. > > > > My *question*, though, is this: how do you upgrade the actual driver > > now that it's in the mainline? The ivtvdriver.org howto doesn't actually > > cover this, and, at 2.6.34, I don't have a lot of kernel upgrading > > left to do -- I would *really* prefer not to have to go off the > > reservation, kernel wise, if I don't have to. > > > > Can Andy or someone give me the 3 sentence precis of this, and once > > I've got it done, I'll write it up for the wiki? > > > > ( Sorry this is poorly threaded, but my mailer won't let me at the > > damn references header to unlink it... ) > > > > It has been years since I have debugged ivtv (it just works now!) > anyways I believe the kernel driver would be a recent version just > that the client applications ivtvctrl ... are ancient. Check your > dmesg to verify that. There should be the driver version in the ivtv > initialization line.
And I just did that, and to my surprise, while my *ivtvctl* is 0.10.5, my driver is in fact 1.4.1. It's not possible that the mismatched utilities package is what's causing this, is it? I've been told that the utilities are supposed to Just Match the driver, but clearly, Suse didn't get the memo. In other news: why am I getting the backend error I am, if I'm on the right driver? (I know: ask the Myth people. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
