# ls -ld /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-06-10 17:31 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 # emerge --info Portage 2.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7-mythtv x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7-mythtv x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache confcache distcc distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=60" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa apache2 authdaemond avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups directfb dri dvb eds emboss encode fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk2 imap imlib isdnlog jpeg libwww lirc lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff maildir mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntfs opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs samba sasl sdl session spell spl ssl sysfs syslog tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unichrome unicode usb vorbis xorg xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux lirc_devices_hauppauge userland_GNU video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 88871 [details] emerge -uv ivtv
You need 0.6.2 for 2.6.16 kernels...
(In reply to comment #2) > You need 0.6.2 for 2.6.16 kernels... Ok thx. Shouldn't this be made clear by the ebuild somehow? (Btw 0.6.2 does work for me :) )
This is a valid bug because ivtv is broken in the stable tree
(In reply to comment #4) > This is a valid bug because ivtv is broken in the stable tree And - what kind of "fix" do you expect? The stable version doesn't work at all and won't work w/ new kernels ever, the unstable versions don't work for some people and 0.6.2 is package.masked because it doesn't work for the maintainer... # Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> (26 May 2006) # it doesn't work for me but people want it.. =media-tv/ivtv-0.6.2
Sounds like the whole thing should be masked, or at least not in the stable tree at all
Dan, 0.6.x is messed up for a bunch of people. My consistent answer in #mythtv-users is use a 2.6.15 kernel & 0.4.x ivtv (which is marked stable). I can't help it that gentoo kernels go stable lightning fast before developers of other projects are unable to. Since video4linux (v4l) and ivtv are working together to improve the in kernel sources and get everything merged back upstream then each ivtv version is basically going to be a stop gap version to provide the parts that the kernel doesn't have yet. People really shouldn't use a 2.6.16 kernel with any TV related goals. The issue is that the kernel people took a couple of patches for some of the modules into the kernel didn't apply others. The issue is that all the patches were dependant on each other. So basically 2.6.16 is broken. The ivtv ebuild can't fix it. The in kernel API between modules is broken. ivtv shouldn't be masked. It's worked fine for ages... the 2.6.16 kernel should be masked.. But then again 2.6.15 was broken for PPC users since the kernel upstream people did half of the changes for ppc->powerpc & ppc64->powerpc. So maybe that kernel should be masked.. Basically every kernel has something. You just need to find a kernel that works for your setup and if the next one doesn't... Stick with that.
*** Bug 136435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
New mask message and new test added to stable ebuilds and unstable ebuilds.
