On Wednesday 25 January 2006 08:44, Michel Di Croci wrote:
> I am on MythTV with Arch Linux but the thing is that I don't have this
> card. I installed the packaged version of mythtv and a couple of packages
> for mythtv on the aur site. I would like to be able to say some stuff new
> but what I can assure you is that it seems to be working perfectly right
> now my MythTV setup, so if you get any issues I would look before in the
> settings of video group and stuffs like that.
>
> I'm not sure how you run it, maybe you can try in root... try to find the
> real problem not just to try everything at once. If I can be of any help, I
> would really like to help you. So for now I have my video driver detected
> (leadtek WinFast 2000; bttv driver), IR remote configured (still from
> Leadtek; configured with LIRC), Music share (through samba).
>
> I did not test any input from the TV card to MythTV, test should be coming
> really soon (I need one cable not related to this), as soon as I can get
> this one, I will gladly send you my feedback. And the export TV on the ATI
> Radeon 9200 seems to be quite easy with the proprietary ATI driver, still
> I'm searching the needed cable. Making a long history short, I need a S-VHS
> output to RCA.
>
> I hope you'll find a way to find what you miss, I think that arch is a
> remarkable system to host this type of system cause it's really slow
> consuming on resources since you install only what you need.
>
> Michel
>
> 2006/1/12, Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Ok, I am confused. I got the above card and it works great in Windows,
> > however, Windows is not my preferred desktop.
> >
> > So, I went on a quest to install it under Arch. Well, getting the ivtv
> > driver
> > and firmware was not all that hard to do, however, the ivtv version in
> > pacman
> > must have been outdated because it didn't work ;).
> >
> > Anyway, now that I have the drivers all setup I can do an mplayer
> > /dev/video0
> > and change channels with ivtv-tune, however, I am not able to get any of
> > the
> > common apps to work; like tvtime, kdetv, xawtv or anything. They all
> > complain
> > about the output of /dev/video0 or other issues. Tvtime says ivtv:invalid
> > argument.
> >
> > I cant even get MythTV to work (Using the wiki) due to some missing lib
> > file
> > (mythtv-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libI810XvMC.so.1)
> > which
> > I cant find anyware.
> >
> > Also, I cant recompile MythTV because of a ton of missing perl files or
> > something along those lines.
> >
> > Sheesh, all I want to do is watch TV at my desktop without having to
> > issue a
> > ton of CLI commands to change channels.
> >
> > Does ANYONE have ANY idea how I can accomplish this?
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> >
> > Joe
> >
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Thanks for the reply and kind words...

My card uses the ivtv driver and that is where allot of the problems occur. I 
have already confirmed with the driver developers that the card is too new to 
be supported in 99% of all the tv viewing apps out there for Linux, but they 
assured me that is only temporary.

I have successfully installed MythTV and I can get signal, but cant switch 
channels. This is also another known issue with the ivtv driver. 

I will just be patient and see what happens in the future. I'm quite happy 
using kmplayer /dev/video0 for now :).

Thanks!!!

Joe

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