On Saturday 04 December 2004 08:24, Cameron Booth wrote:
> OK guys,
>
> Thank again for all your advice. Sorry I'm so helpless at this....I'm
> learning a little bit more with every round ;-)
>
> Anyways, I've tried:
> > Workaround 1:
> > o rename tuner.*o from the /kernel/ subdir
>
> I tried just renaming the file to tuner.old.ko, but modprobe -nv tuner
> still seemed to find that, so I actually moved it to a totally different
> place...both the versions in .....kernel/ and ....update/ right away from
> there....

You need the one in update/ to stay put, that's the kernel module you want. 
After removing the old one out of kernel/, you need to run depmod -ae to get 
the new one picked up.


> Then I tried:
> > Workaround 2:
> > o Get
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS
> >/modu le-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.4.src.rpm
> > and rebuild it on your platform.
>
> --> At first I wasn't sure how to do this really, but then I found a couple
> HOWTOs, and did it like this:
>
> # rpm -Uvh
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/m
>o dule-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.4.src.rpm
> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> # rpmbuild -ba module-init-tools.spec
> # cd ../RPMS/
> # rpm -Uvh module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.4.i386.rpm
> # rpm -Uvh module-init-tools-debuginfo-3.1-0.pre5.4.i386.rpm

This should suffice, actually:

# wget http://.../module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.4.src.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.4.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/module-init-tools-3.1-0.pre5.4.i386.rpm

> --> That all seemed to work well, so I did a test or two:
>
> # apt-cache policy modutils
> <OUTPUT>
> modutils:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 2.4.26-16
>   Version Table:
>      2.4.26-16 0
>        996 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386/core pkglist
> </OUTPUT>
>
> # apt-cache policy module-init-tools
> <OUTPUT>
> module-init-tools:
>   Installed: 3.1-0.pre5.4
>   Candidate: 3.1-0.pre5.4
>   Version Table:
>  *** 3.1-0.pre5.4 0
>         100 RPM Database
> </OUTPUT>
>
> --> It seems like I got module-init-tools alright, but I now don't have
> modutils installed? Strange....so I tried:

Not strange, its actually the correct behavior. module-init-tools provides all 
the functionality of modutils and then some. It actually obsoletes 
module-init-tools.

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# apt-get install modutils
> <OUTPUT>
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   module-init-tools
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   modutils
> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
>   module-init-tools (due to kernel#2.6.5-1.358)
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 removed and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 405kB of archives.
> After unpacking 109kB of additional disk space will be used.
> You are about to do something potentially harmful
> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
> </OUTPUT>
>
> --> I cancelled out of this, wasn't sure if it would screw things up, or
> potentially revert back to an older modutils version again.

It would have given you the old one, cancelling was correct.

> Looking now at modprobe I get:
> # modprobe -nv ivtv
> <OUTPUT>
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.6_FC2/updates/drivers/media/video/ivtv.ko
> </OUTPUT>
>
> # modprobe -nv tuner
> <OUTPUT>
> FATAL: Could not open
> '/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.6_FC2/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.bad.ko': No
> such file or directory
> </OUTPUT>
>
> This doesn't look very good ;-) What should it do?

I believe if depmod -ae were run before modprobe'ing the tuner, you'd be okay.

> After restarting I still get "tuner not set" lines in my /var/log/messages
> and I still am not able to get output from the tuner.

Hm, that's odd... Could just force the issue and copy the tuner out of 
updates/ into the right place in kernel/... I'm surprised it didn't work 
after a reboot, but maybe RH's module-init-tools doesn't respect updates/ 
overriding kernel/ either...


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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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