On 6/24/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>Actually, this is the way the 500 works, it shows up as 2x150. So > >>autodetect is fine. The only problem I see is a missing tda9887 > >>module. You have the same D492 card as me, and this is what I need > >>in modprobe.conf to make it work : > >> > >> > >Thanks Keith. I had no idea that's what it did. Is this true for both > >the 500 and the 500MCE? > > > > > Yes. If you look at an lspci ouput, you'll see that the PVR-500s > actually show up as two "functions" in one slot. The PCI probe calls us > back once for each of these and we detect them as PVR150s based on their > model and revision IDs. Esentially a PVR500 is just two PVR150s crammed > into one slot, so it's ok. However, we do have some people who report > problems with one or more of their tuners not working properly so > there's at least something different about them that will need to be > addressed.
Interesting. I'm a hardware guy with a bit of PCI background. Do you know how are they placing two turners on the same card? Are the tuners PCI devices and then the card has a PCI bridge? This would be visible fron the lspci data. The reason I ask is: 1) I'm interested in getting a dual tuner card that might actually work reliably 2) I have a combo USB2.0/1394 card that uses a PCI Bridge and works great under Windows but doesn't work under Linux. I've been somewhat suspicious that the the P2P bridge support might be part of the issue here, in that somehow it works when part o the North Bridge but possibly not so well when on an adapter card. (More configuration options and different buffering schemes in the bridge hardware.) Anyway, thanks for your insights. Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
