media-tv/ivtv and media-tv/ivtv-utils support

beandog · Last edited by beandog on Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:30 pm; edited 1 time in total

We (media-tv herd) have dropped support for media-tv/ivtv, reverted all ebuilds to an unstable status (~arch). They will eventually be removed from the tree, most likely as the kernels that they rely upon disappear as well.

media-tv/ivtv is for kernels <=2.6.25, and provides both the kernel modules and IVTV utilities needed to support the V4L2 devices.

As of 2.6.26 kernels, support for IVTV has been included in the mainline kernel, and users only need to emerge media-tv/ivtv-utils
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Old School · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:54 am Post subject:

Sweet. Thanks for the heads up.
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scottj · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2009 Posts: 1

Just FYI...

I made a bug fix for media-tv/ivtv-utils-1.3.0-r1

I had to create media-tv/ivtv-utils-1.3.0-r2 (my custom version).

I replaced KMOD with MODULES in the kernel config dependency check in the ebuild.

ivtv-utils # diff ivtv-utils-1.3.0-r1.ebuild ivtv-utils-1.3.0-r2.ebuild
30c30
< CONFIG_CHECK="EXPERIMENTAL KMOD HAS_IOMEM FW_LOADER I2C I2C_ALGOBIT
---
> CONFIG_CHECK="EXPERIMENTAL MODULES HAS_IOMEM FW_LOADER I2C I2C_ALGOBIT

This built fine for me on 2.6.29-gentoo-r1

I also had to emerge sys-kernel/linux-headers for the latest to pickup
a fix for a missing symbol in ivtv.h

mundi · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 60

cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

Please excuse a probably stupid question...I"m upgrading an old box I had mythtv on using the old ivtv.
I'm now at the 2.6.31 kernel, and I'm doing
make menuconfig

I can't find any IVTV option in there...can someone tell me what I might be missing setting that will give me the option for ivtv in the kernel?

Thanks in advance,

cayenne
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dwbowyer · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 155

If you try to install ivtv-utils, it'll actually tell you what kernel modules you need, and error out if you don't in the running kernel.

freundfire · n00b Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 7

It is the same for me, I also had to emerge sys-kernel/linux-headers for the latest to pickup
a fix for a missing symbol in ivtv.h, so thanks for helping...

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

It's also good to have ivtv-utils for things other than stock ivtv cards, like the cx18, and I'm sure by now there are others. I'm getting by with some hand-built stuff in /usr/local, for now. It might be good to open up the kernel mod definitions a bit, for these other similar cards. (It won't help me at the moment, since I'm running out-of-portage, out-of-kernel mercurial drivers for my cx18.)
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