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Feb 22, 2011, 2:01 AM
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Re: module-init-tools, CentOS and cx88 dvb/video modules
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Neil Bird <neil [at] fnxweb> wrote:
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> I'm posting here as the previous mentions of this problem have been here
> and not the MythTV list.
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> I recently got bitten [again] by the CentOS 5 module-init-tools update
> issue which prevents certain v4l modules from loading (cx88dvb etc. in my
> case), so I've re-downgraded to the working
> module-init-tools-3.3-0.pre3.1.42.
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> My question is: what's the actual issue, here? Has anyone figured out
> what's going wrong, or how to work around it (maybe with module
> blacklisting)? My worry is that I'll want to upgrade to CentOS 6 at some
> point, and have a still-incompatible module-init-tools that then can't be
> downgraded to a working one.
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Rhel6 uses a recent kernel, and probably there will be no need for a
video4linux package for quite some time.
Furthermore, I only saw this problem on Rhel5, and I really did not
investigate further.
I installed rhle6 on two notebooks and one desktop, and it is just like an
F12 system.
The problems are an old kde/qt, which makes compilation difficult some times
(no Amarok yet), and a gnome
that does not save the windows in their original workspace (always in the
first workspace).
As a multimedia desktop, rhel6 does not compare with Fedora because there
are hundreds of missing useful applications.
This is what I had to compile myself to have a system mimicking my Fedora's
environment (besides what comes from epel/atrpms):
http://orion.lcg.ufrj.br/RPMS/myrpms-el6-x86_64/lcgrpms/
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Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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