Re: MythTV WAS: [Re: [gentoo-user] Are the video files there, or aren't they?] [SOLVED sort of]

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 04:42 +0000, Stroller wrote:
> On 18 Feb 2009, at 22:41, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 22:15 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:30:31 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is it there, or isn't it?  I don't know if it matters, but when I
> >>> was
> >>> trying to fix the X problem, I built and booted with a new kernel:
> >>
> >> Did you try going back to the old kernel?
> >
> > I went back to the old kernel
> >
> > camille ~ # uname -a
> > Linux camille 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 #1 SMP Sat Dec 13 17:31:25 CST 2008
> > i686
> > GNU/Linux
> >
> >
> > and the video worked, at least from /dev/v4l/video0.  This is a
> > temporary solution, but now I can't get mythtv to work.  LiveTV won't
> > work, and it won't show my upcoming programs.  I've verified that
> > mysql
> > is running:
> >
> > ...
> > and when I run mythbackend and frontend in a terminal, I get this:
> > ...
> > ERROR: no valid capture cards are defined in the database.
>
> Is it possible that, when you booted with the new kernel & no cards
> were found they were removed from MythTV's database?
>
> I have never used MythTV, but maybe - under the old kernel - you can
> add them back in using MythTV's setup and they'll work again?
>
> This doesn't help why the cards are not shown under the new kernel,
> but if you are easily able to add them in then it would demonstrate
> that your hardware is OK & perhaps inspire confidence.
>
> Stroller.

I got Myth to work with the 2.6.26-r4 kernel, but I don't plan on using this kernel forever.  Is there any way I can find out what modules are being loaded with this kernel that aren't being loaded with the new one?