MythTV on el6: tuner support

[John Pilkington]

On 14/04/13 20:47, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 14/04/13 16:57, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>> <mailto:J.Pilk at 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.
>

An update.  I had no success, over several weeks, with the linuxtv 
media_build script and current kernels from sl6, and a quick attempt to 
rebuild the ATrpms v4l package also failed.  But then I tried the 
kernel-lt from elrepo, and the PCTV-290e DVB-T2 USB device works with no 
apparent problems.

My laptop has by now moved some way from RHEL6-clone status, since I 
also have qt-4.8.4 and kde-4.10.2 from kde-unstable, but it seems to 
Work For Me.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/kernel-lt

http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/redhat/6/i386/unstable/RPMS/

John P