Unretiring cx18-firmware, if anyone else still wants it in the distro

Gilles J. Seguin segg.gill at bell.net
Sat May 30 09:57:26 UTC 2015


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



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