Hi ! it seems that it is not possible to use ivtv 0.6.2 with the very latest kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 available in portage (without masking) : If I emerge ivtv, I first have an error which tells me that the following required flags are missing : CONFIG_VIDEO_AUDIO_DECODER=m CONFIG_VIDEO_DECODER=m If I add them in .config manually (which I did), I can then emerge ivtv, but after a reboot and a kernel rebuild, a "dmesg" indicates that saa7115.ko and saa7127.ko modules are missing on boot (needed for ivtv to work). Looking in kernel sources in drivers/media/video/Makefile you can see that those drivers modules are compiled when CONFIG_VIDEO_DECODER option is enabled : obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DECODER) += saa7115.o cx25840/ saa7127.o Too bad, as this option cannot be added with make menuconfig anymore :-( Doing a "make menuconfig" shows that the corresponding menu option is not available any more compared to 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 sources where it was in : Device Drivers --> ... Multimedia devices --> <*> Video for Linux Video for Linux --> ... <m> Add support for additional audio chipset <m> Add support for additional video chipset I've tried to add these manually again on Gentoo 2.16.9r9, but after a "make menuconfig" the options are lost... So I'm falling back to previous kernel (r7) version, hoping that it will work...
Read the notice in /usr/portage/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, actually
(In reply to comment #2) > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, actually > OK :/ Thanks... I didn't know this version of ivtv was so buggy :-( So I'm switching back to my old kernel & ivtv versions... # Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> (26 May 2006) # it doesn't work for many people but others want it # by doesn't work I mean one of the following: # - does not compile # - can't find tuner (tuners are renumbered in this version.. remember that) # - can't change channels # - can't see all the channels # - can't hear sound # Gentoo users wanting 0.6.x have caused lots of noise on multiple mailing lists # and IRC. They have insulted upstream developers and users alike because they want # there latest version and they want it NOW!!!!111oneoneoneeleven Knock it off.. # it's not endearing. Use kernel 2.6.15 & ivtv 0.4.5. =media-tv/ivtv-0.6.2
