IVTV Patch
Hi all
I've changed from Ubuntu Server 10.04 to Debian Squeeze on my home media
server.
I use it as a MythTV backend machine and have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-500
which produces "ivtv0: DMA TIMEOUT" messages in my logs when it hangs
(and this happens very often).
That's why I wrote to the IVTV mailing list and got this fix:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d213ad08362909ab50fbd6568fcc9fd568268d29
This patch should already be in the newer kernel as I was told.
I don't have much experience with all this stuff and don't know what I
should do.
Because I want this machine to run stable I don't want to change to
testing or unstable.
And because I have never compiled a kernel I have no clue about the
problems I will face.
If I understand it correct I will have to download the kernel source,
apply the patch, compile the kernel and install it.
But I suppose when there'll be security updates to the kernel I'll have
to do this again?
It would be great if you could tell me what would be the best (easiest)
way for me or what you would do if you were me.
Best regards
Ramon
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