-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aries Aries wrote: > Hi, I just bought a new computer together with a pvr500mce. But I have a > hard time installing it. I followed the gentoo howto on the gentoo wiki > pages:
There are a couple of gotchas I've run across with the PVR500MCE and Gentoo: 1) If you're running Linux 2.6.15 or later, the official ebuild forces you to use the kernel's tuner.ko (and some other modules). Support for some newer tuners (such as the Samsung tuners on my card) isn't included there. You need to modify the ebuild so that ivtv's tuner.ko will be built and installed instead. 2) There's a bug in ivtv's tuner.ko WRT the aforementioned Samsung tuner. I noticed it pretty quickly when a black-and-white copy of TNT was turning up where Fox News should be (Fox News is on channel 21 around here). Someone posted a patch to the list last week. I just installed it at home, but since I'm at work right now (and my MythTV box is running on its old PVR-350 and PVR-250MCE right now anyway), I haven't yet tested it. Others have said the patch fixed most of their problems. I've put a fixed ebuild up here that you can put in your Portage overlay: http://alfter.us/files/ivtv-0.4.2-r2.ebuild It pulls in the patch: http://alfter.us/files/ivtv-0.4.2-Samsungtuner.patch You'll want to rebuild your kernel source with CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848, CONFIG_VIDEO_AUDIO_DECODER, and CONFIG_VIDEO_DECODER disabled (instead of enabled) before using this ebuild. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD4nLLVgTKos01OwkRAmBOAJ0TPhN/kZwskymcnpETBjJm6a9eJACfWgvv VUMie6mVpEtb8K6g0P5W9kc= =PTS9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
