[CentOS] Centos 5.1, mythtv, saa7134_dvb?

[Johnny Hughes]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>> On Jan 1, 2008 4:44 AM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> Alas, the saa7134 in 2.6.18 is too old for my card :-(
>>> The driver in 2.6.18 supports card numbered 1 to 95.
>>> My card (medion) has number 96 :-(
>>>
>>> Putting saa7134 from a 2.6.23 kernel into 2.6.18 doesn't work.
>>
>> Oh, this is unfortunate.  In that case, the "easiest" way to get your
>> card to work may be to use the 2.6.23 kernel.  Of course, you'd have
>> to take care of security fixes etc yourself...
> 
> Is there anything special I have to do to use a vanilla kernel
> on a Centos 5.1 machine? Nothing special hardware (except for
> the TV card), /boot and / on software RAID 1.
> 
> The centos 2.6.18 kernel is build with 1084 (!) patches,
> I assume they are there for a reason.
> 
> I stopped doing kernel compilations around RedHat 9...
> 

Hmm ... I would try to use a newer Fedora kernel SRPM that meets the
requirements.

Or maybe even just use MythDora for this machine as it is specifically
designed for mythtv boxes.



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