Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150 - which Linux distro?

[Morten Rønseth]

Ok, thanks. Is this option set in the 'make menuconfig' step? Cheers, -Morten Nick Rosier wrote: 4K-stacks is an option in the kernel when you compile it. I think it also got backported to 2.4 so both 2.4 and 2.6 are "affected". 4KSTACK has nothing to do with Gentoo. Even more, I think Gentoo-users are more likely not to be affected as with a regular Gentoo-installation, you have to compile your kernel yourself. Most users I've seen that have problems are Fedora users as the default kernel in Fedora uses 4K-stacks. So it really doesn't matter which distro you are running; as long as your kernel isn't compiled with 4K-stacks (by distro or by yourself), you'll not be affected by this. Initially I tried the 0.3.2x drivers for my PVR-150 with 4K-stacks and it paniced. Since I went back to 8K-stacks, the driver's been running stable. N. On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:44:25 +0100, Morten Rønseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see a lot of mention about '4KSTACK' problems using Gentoo. Is this a 2.6 kernel issue, or does it apply to the 2.4 kernel as well? Cheers, -Morten Greg Woolsey wrote: I have a Via Epia M10000 board, and wanted to use the unichrome driver for native MPEG decoding. However, docs on it say it is hard to line up it's CVS with 2 other projects that are moving targets also. Finding current versions that all play nice sounds like a bit of a trial and error. I wanted to use prebuilt RPMs that have worked for other people to be safe, as I'm not good enough at that stuff to solve a conflict in a reasonable amount of time. I'll wait for that, though, in order to get the 150 working. The cpu can handle decoding one stream in memory for now. Next problem is finding free time to work on it - the day job and kids are a handful :-) On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:46:58 -0500, Ram Yalamanchili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hmm.. what "modules" are you talking about? if its about ivtv, i just compiled from source. it takes hardly 10 secs to compile from source... and i would recommend it to you it thats the biggest problem. -r On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:22:03 -0800, Greg Woolsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried the linuxant kernels, but then apt/rpm didn't like the kernel name and wouldn't install additional modules via RPM any more, seeing "stk" instead of "FC" at the end of the installed version. Anyone have a workaround for that? On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:33:29 -0500, Ram Yalamanchili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hey, I had no trouble in getting video working (no audio however) in fedora. The problem which causes the hang-up while loading ivtv modules is the 4k stack kernels which are defautly shipped/maintained by fedora. You will need to disable the 4k stack option in the kernel and re-compile. or just get the binaries from linuxant's website: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc3-kernel-i686.php They only have 32-bit (smp and non-smp versions available), but for 64-bit support, you might have to look elsewhere or just recompile. -- R On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:09:58 -0500, Zed Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim, Being "stuck" with Fedora as well, I was wondering if you had some instructions on how you did this exactly? I tried Gentoo today but it choked on the GCC 3.4.3 build. Sigh. Any happy Debian users out there? Zed On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 04:43 -0600, James L. Reese wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:40:49 +0100 Morten Rønseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've just recently aquired a 150 MCE card which I will be installing shortly. However, before I do so, I'd like to ask this community which Linux distro will most likely be a success with the 150 card in conjunction with ivtv/mythtv? I was originally thinking of Mandrake (or maybe Debian as Mythtv is developed under Debian) but I've seen a lot of good folks here use Gentoo. If you all could share your experiences with me, both positive and negative, I'd be much obliged. Feel free to mail me off this list as well. I have had no trouble with both Fedora 2 and 3 as long as you recompile the kernel without REGPARM, 4KSTACKS and pre-emption. ----- Jim Reese, WD5IYT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&opclick _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&opclick _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&opclick _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&opclick _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB-fx Morten Lerskau Rønseth http://www.webfx.no Odinsvei 15c mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1413 Tårnåsen Tlf.: (47) 6680 9191 Norway Mob : (47) 9343 4357 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB-fx Morten Lerskau Rønseth http://www.webfx.no Odinsvei 15c mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1413 Tårnåsen Tlf.: (47) 6680 9191 Norway Mob : (47) 9343 4357