[KLUG Members] Compiling from source then installing by rpm

[bkatsma at comcast.net]

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> It's easier with core 1 at this point in time.
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I may just end up doing this.  As firewire is broke in FC2 as well.  So After installing FC2 And looking at atrpms.com he has all the mythtv rpms for core 2.  So I gave it a shot and I kept getting "Segmentation fault"  when trying to launch the ivtv module .  So because of this and the Nvidia issue I decided to follow these instructions at http://www.pogmech.net/~ral/mythtv/mythtv-fc2-build.txt.  I learned a lot doing so although kernel modules still have me confused.  I think partly due to not knowing what file and syntax to use and which modules to load, which I think changed between kernel 2.4 and 2.6.   So I ended up compiling the kernel, installed the NVIDIA drivers, Compiled mplayer and IVTV and at that point everything was working as expected.  That is the tuner card and NVIDIA acceleration, so I decided to do the remainder via rpm and that hosed my install.  Great learning experience but waste of time although I would do it again for the learning experience.  
  
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> Like the nvidia accelerated X driver?
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Yes that and IVTV. There may Lirc issues as well.

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> Yes, nvidia is suppose to be coming out with a newer driver for the
> later 2.6 kernels, but it's not out yet AFAIK.
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The same thing (4stacks or something like that) that is effecting Nvidia is also effecting IVTV.  If it was just Nvidia I would just get everything working minus the acceleration and fix that when Nvidia released the fix.
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> Normally when you compile a kernel from source you only put a couple
> files in /boot and the new kernel has a ton of files in it's own
> /lib/modules directory.
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> To remove it, delete the /boot files, remove the modules directory,
> remove the source (where you compiled it), and remove the config lines
> from your boot loader (grub.conf).  Quite simple actually.
> 
But it is not just the kernel I am considering compiling it is the whole ball of wax that is included in the above docs.  But I am concerned about maintenance of the install.  If I compile everything do I have to continue to compile new releases?

There was one other thing I did try.  I installed my system the way I liked it and then added mythsuite from atrpms then I was going to fix Nvidia and IVTV but then alsa broke for some reason.  So I recompiled the Kernel to 2.6.6 with no luck.  I see that there is an rpm "kernel-module-alsa-2.6.6-1.383-1.0.5a-0_30.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm" at atrpm and I attempted to install that but says :


error: Failed dependencies:
        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.383 is needed by kernel-module-alsa-2.6.6-1.383-1.0.5a-0_30.rhfc2.at
        kernel = 2.6.6-1.383 is needed by kernel-module-alsa-2.6.6-1.383-1.0.5a-0_30.rhfc2.at
 
Which confused me.  I assumed that there would be an rpm of this kernel but I can not find it if there is. 

Thanks again