Greetings... I have a happily functioning MythTV (0.18.1) on an Asus Pundit, running Fedora Core 3 (2.6.11-1.27_FC3) with a Hauppauge PVR-350 (NTSC). I'm using the PVR-350's TV-Out to send MythTV's (composite) output to my home theater system. The ivtv driver currently installed is version 0.2.0-rc3j. Recording, playback, LiveTV, etc are all working just fine.
Lately, I've been longing for another (at least one!) tuner, so I've purchased a PVR-500MCE to populate the second (and sole remaining!) PCI slot in the Pundit. I thought I had a handle on what needed to be done on the system to install/configure the new card, but now I'm not so sure... and I have a few questions, if anyone here can give me a moment or two. (Amazon.com screwed up the order, so instead of doing it this weekend, I'll be doing it next weekend [unless they screw up again!]). ivtv driver ----------- Originally, I thought I would -have- to update ivtv to 0.3.9 in order to use the PVR-500 -- but then, looking at the changelog for the 0.2.0 driver, it indicates (as of at least rc3j) that "all the support for PVR-150 and PVR-500 cards had been backleveled" into the 0.2.0 release. I've seen an *great* deal of development in the 0.3.9 chain over the past two weeks, specifically concerning the PVR-150 and/or PVR-500, but no resultant update release in the 0.2.0 chain... so I tend to doubt the claim in the changelog for the 0.2.0 series. It's looking like 0.3.9 (or, soon to be 0.4.0) version upgrade is probably the right path to go, here... right? modprobe.conf ------------- Currently, the relevant portions of my /etc/modprobe.conf looks like this: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # This is for WinTV PVR-350 IVTV # ivtv modules setup alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb # lirc setup install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've read several items on the web (and in this list) that indicate I should modify this file to include another ivtv line: alias char-major-81-1 ivtv ..below the "-81-0" line. Since I'll be adding a PVR-500, which is essentially two PVR-150s, do I need to also add a third ivtv line? (alias char-major-81-2 ivtv) ?? i2c --- Finally, in the FAQ (yes, I've read it!), the answer to the question "I have more than 1 card. What should be in my modprobe.conf?" discusses possibly needing to add a few more lines to control i2c, specifically in the case of adding a PVR-500 to an existing PVR-350 system: options cx25840 i2c_enable=-1,1,1 options saa7127 i2c_enable=1,-1,-1 Is this FAQ answer still relevant to the 0.3.9 (or 0.4.0) driver? I would truly appreciate any/all answers (especially the correct ones!! haha!) you folks could provide to the above questions.. as well as any other relevant insights. :) Thanks for taking the time to read through this... - briand _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
