Unretiring cx18-firmware, if anyone else still wants it in the distro
Gilles J. Seguin
segg.gill at bell.net
Sun May 31 06:03:29 UTC 2015
On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 05:57 -0400, Gilles J. Seguin wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 17:34 +0000, Simon Farnsworth wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've got the misfortune of maintaining a small number of systems
> > that
> > use
> > the cx18 driver for their HVR-1600 cards; I'm just in the process
> > of
> > bringing these systems up to Fedora 21, and have discovered that
> > cx18-firmware was retired.
> >
> > As I'm going to have to maintain the package for work purposes, I'm
> > volunteering to maintain it in Fedora for F21 and later. If
> > anyone's
> > interested in having it available in Fedora, the review request is
> > at:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203379
>
> linux-firmware-20150521-52.git3161bfa4.fc22
> Obsoletes ivtv-firmware
> and ivtv-utils
>
> which provide the utility for activating
> the input of the capture card
> # v4l2-ctl -i 2
> Video input set to 2 (Composite 1)
>
> The solution is to re-install ivtv-utils from f21 with
> the -nodeps option
i have added comment #9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211055
we need v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
and v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw
i not packaged in linux-firmaware
but removed by ivtv-firware now obsolete
package ivtv-utils was providing v4l2-ctl application
v4l2-ctl application is now provided by v4l-utils
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