Topic: [mythtv] Upgrade 7.3 to 7.4 may require tuner driver upgrade

[christian]

Just a note to mythtv users on SME.

When you upgrade to 7.4, you may need to update your tuner driver. If your tuner is working fine then you should be ok otherwise I have updated the wiki entry to show how to update the ivtv driver:
http://wiki.contribs.org/MythTV#Updating_after_SME_Upgrades

If you are using a different driver then please document.

Christian

[Lourens]

Christian  (or someone else  ), perhaps you can help me.
Actually I am playing with Beta 8.3. I cannot get the ivtv drivers installed.
But when I tried to do this on a clean (virtual) SME7.4 I get the same results, so I think it is not typical SME8 beta related.
yum install ivtv-kmdl-`uname -r` --enablerepo=atrpms --enablerepo=dag
gives me:
No package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 available.
Nothing to do

yum install ivtv --enablerepo=atrpms --enablerepo=dag
gives me when processing dependencies:
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL is needed by package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Lourens

[christian]

No package ivtv-kmdl-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 available.

This is one reason the how-to is marked with "advanced". atrpms tends to move along in its versioning quite quickly and obsoletes just as quickly.

In SME 7.4 we are at kernel 2.6.9-78.0.8 but the ivtv-kmdl in atrpms is already at 2.6.9-78.0.13. No doubt it is a similar issue for SME 8.

You can check the current ivtv drivers from atrpms for CentOS4 at:
http://www.atrpms.net/dist/el4/ivtv/

There are different ways to solve this but I think the easiest way is to advance the 7.4 kernel to the current one in the "smeupdates-testing" repo which is, as it turns out, 2.6.9-78.0.13. Once this is done, you can do the yum install of ivtv.

I would only recommend updating the kernel only if you are confident in what you are doing and have checked the changelog to your satisfaction.

You can see the kernel available in testing via:

Code: [Select]

yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing list available | grep kernel
You can update via:

Code: [Select]

yum --enablerepo=smeupdates-testing update kernel* kmod*
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
Happy Mything!

[cactus]

It is not may require, every kernel upgrade does require a update of the driver as those are kernel-modules and work only with the proper kernel version.

[Lourens]

Thank you very much! Upgrading the kernel did the job for SME7.4!
Guess I have to wait for a higher kernel on SME 8.

Again, thanks for your help!