Re: MythTV on el6: tuner support

On 14/04/13 16:57, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk(a)tesco.net > <mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net>> wrote: > > Hi: I've been happily using the ATrpms repo for more than 8 years, > but it feels like time to test the water over here. > > I have a laptop now running under ScientificLinux 6.4, with kde > 4.10.2 and Qt 4.8.4 from the kde-unstable repo, and MythTV > 0.26.0-7.el6 from rpmfusion. Some parts of the recent installation > process weren't planned, but to my surprise the system seems to be > working well. > > > I'm glad the package is working for you! I had an issue with CentOS 6 so > gave up and went back to Fedora, which is a pity I was really looking > forward to not having to upgrade my MythTV as frequently. > > One part of the working system is still from Atrpms. MythTV under > the current SL6 kernel doesn't recognise the tuner - a PCTV 290e > dvb-t/t2 usb device - so I'm running an earlier kernel with > video4linux driver package and kmdl from ATrpms; the last sync with > linuxtv was in Nov 2011. > > In browsing the rpmfusion repo I haven't recognised packages that > might provide this functionality. What am I missing? > > > Nothing really. The problem is that the v4l package in RHEL/CentOS is > very old, but unlike ATRPMs, RPM Fusion has a policy, like Fedora EPEL, > of not providing packages that already exist in the upstream (or EPEL) > repositories. I don't completely understand the relationship between the > driver, library, and utility packages, but you can reference this BZ bug > I submitted some time ago for more information. Thus far, RH has > declined to update the v4l package. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755343 > > Richard Thanks, Richard. That's clear. I'll explore further and report back if I make progress.