I was following the testing repositories up until last night when I upgraded the kernel as part of moving to the 7.1 release. That's causing issues with my tuner. I'll write a more detailed post about the problem, but the short story is that my tuner (a USB Sony PlayTV - which uses the dvb-usb-dib0700 driver) is giving a kernel oops.

Can I revert to the previous kernel? Well ... is it easier to revert to a previous kernel than to do a full reinstall?

False alarm! It wasn't the kernel at all! Browsing through the pacman log to see what was actually changed last night showed that the kernel wasn't updated, but v4l-dvb was. Reverting to the previous revision of that was reasonably easy (the package was still in the cache)
now its all back to normal (as far as I can see right now).

I am surprised that the 1-17 pkg works as it was compiled against an older kernel. Can you try removing v4l-dvb altogether and see if it still works? With v4l-dvb 1-17 removed the 2.6.39 modules should be used.

Thanks. This happened to me after upgrading to 7.1 and it was blowing my mind, since the kernel module existed, but was exploding.

Confirmed, this



put everything back in order using the default kernel drivers.

Nebulous, can you explain more about what this does/did to fix a problem you were having with 7.1? R7.1 made my HDPVR useless as it now will only record about 5-15 minutes and then stop recording but leave the top blue light on and the front red light on. Nothing new can then start to record until I power cycle it. Just wondering if what you did might help my problem. I'm assuming this reverts to an older v4l?? Is that correct?

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I can confirm that after removing the v4l-dvb package, as brfransen suggested, the tuner is still working!