On Saturday 09 April 2005 16:50, Rick Stewart wrote: > I have read and followed a lot of the collected wisdom from everyone on the > list concerning getting the above card working in my machine. There appears > to be two basic schools of thought: > > 1. Jarod's recommended approach - minimal modprobe.conf settings, e.g. > > # ivtv modules setup > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
With the addition of "options cx25840 no_black_magic=1", that works great for me on both my cards, but may not work so well for others, especially in PAL territory. > And then manually (or on startup from /etc/rc.d/rc.local) load other > modules and options I don't load anything from rc.local, everything gets loaded by rc.sysinit using a little patch. > 2. A lot of others - all sorts of module and option combos in > modprobe.conf, e.g. > > # ivtv modules setup > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1,-1,-1,-1 > options cx25840 i2c_enable=1,1,1,1 no_black_magic=1 > options wm8775 mixer=2 > options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=58 > options tda9887=0 qss=0 > > I must admit, I have had some success recently with the latter in > combination with driver 0.3.2q on 2.6.10-1.770_FC3. I'm now wondering > whether I should go back to the AT-RPMs packaged driver and retry Jarod's > approach again. Note that the items with four params (the i2c_enables) are for four cards, you only need one for one card. Not sure how well a bare-bones modprobe.conf will work for those with different cards than I have (esp. PAL/SECAM). > My current issues are that sound fluctuates in volume from the tuner input > and is really tinny from the composite input. I'd like to rectify these > things if possible. > I occasionally get a 'device /dev/dsp is use by another process' when > starting mythfrontend too - anyone else seen this? Every once in a while after the frontend dies and I start it back up right away. Seems there's a stale something somewhere that has to get cleared out. > Anyone out there have any strong opinions one way or the other? Happy to > supply any other details if anyone is interested and thanks to all the > enthusiasts and gurus out there! I would not have come this far without > you... Optimally, everything should be auto-detected and auto-configured so you don't have to screw around with a million different options, but we're not there yet for all cards. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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