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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 30-05-15 11:57, 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

If v4l2-ctl is what you need then nowadays you should
install v4l-utils.

Regards,

Hans