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Problem compiling ivtv modules -
I'm running a MythTV (www.mythtv.org) box featuring Suse 9.0 and a Hauppauge WinTV350 card. Since there are some troubles with the IvyTV 0.1.9 modules for the box, I would like to try the 0.2.0 version. Currently, Chris Kennedy is puming out a lot of release candidates.
As I compile the ivtv modules it remarks:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -I/lib/modules/2.4.21-99-d
ivtv-kthreads.c: In function `ivtv_dec_thread':
ivtv-kthreads.c:1121: error: structure has no member named `nice'
ivtv-kthreads.c: In function `ivtv_enc_thread':
ivtv-kthreads.c:1195: error: structure has no member named `nice'
make: *** [ivtv-kthreads.o] Error 1
Since this problem is not reported by others, plus the fact that this problem persisted in all Chris's release candidates tells me thet this is a problem with my box, not the software (and therefore will not be pached). Although I have a reasonal knowledge of Linux, my programming skills are limited to getting things compiled and installed. Any help is appreciated.
P.S. I did uncomment the following line in Makefile2.4 since I use i2c 2.8.0+:
CFLAGS += -DNEW_I2C
As I compile the ivtv modules it remarks:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -I/lib/modules/2.4.21-99-d
ivtv-kthreads.c: In function `ivtv_dec_thread':
ivtv-kthreads.c:1121: error: structure has no member named `nice'
ivtv-kthreads.c: In function `ivtv_enc_thread':
ivtv-kthreads.c:1195: error: structure has no member named `nice'
make: *** [ivtv-kthreads.o] Error 1
Since this problem is not reported by others, plus the fact that this problem persisted in all Chris's release candidates tells me thet this is a problem with my box, not the software (and therefore will not be pached). Although I have a reasonal knowledge of Linux, my programming skills are limited to getting things compiled and installed. Any help is appreciated.
P.S. I did uncomment the following line in Makefile2.4 since I use i2c 2.8.0+:
CFLAGS += -DNEW_I2C
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I've solved the problem by hacking the source myself. It seems that there are some different semantics for different kernels. This is done by adding #ifdef and #ifndef compiler directives. Unfortunately, when I change the environment variables (checked by the #if?def directives) then something else goes wrong. [Boy, I've got some weird kernel!] So by checking the line numbers, I manually changed #ifdef to #ifndef and vise versa, and voila! I had a compile and a nice working system.
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I'm pretty sure I'm NOT using a new tuner since the thing worked fine with ivtv0.1.9, which was not the case in the pvr_350_static thread. (Even the SE11 and E5- channels were tuned correctly)
Although the error occurs in the same module (kthreads), the error itself is totally different. I have enough programming experience to know that if the error is not completely equal, the origin can be very different.