On Jun 15, 2006, at 10:00 PM, Matthew Clark wrote:

> What HDTV card just works?

Good point.  If someone has troubles getting ivtv to work, which is,  
in my opinion, a very mature set of drivers, they will have  
nightmares trying to get an HDTV card to work.  I have a pcHDTV-3000  
card and while it does appear to work pretty well now that the  
drivers are included in the kernel, it took a long time to get  
there.  I spent 4 months with the card in a drawer until the drivers  
got to a usable point.  And now that the 3000 has recently been  
replaced with the 5500, expect at least as many problems.  No one has  
a 5500 up and running yet according to their forums, and the company  
has pretty much stopped communicating with their customers.

Keith C

>
> Marc E. wrote:
>> Whatever. IVTV is broken.
>>
>> I gave up long ago after nights of trying to fix broken software.
>>
>> I am returning my TV card.
>>
>> When I first started this post, nobody replied anyways.
>>
>> I am getting an HDTV card (something that works)
>>
>> Everything should just work.
>>
>> And about this solution, it doesnt work. The default debian kernel  
>> has
>> tmpfs.
>>
>> David Pettit wrote:
>>> Yes, I built my own kernel.  Yes, I did enable CONFIG_FW_LOADER.
>>>
>>> Where did you get 2.6.16 for Debian?  The latest one I've seen on  
>>> Aptitude
>>> is 2.6.8.  I couldn't get it to run without going to Kernel  
>>> Panic, so I
>>> built one from scratch.  I just pulled the latest stable version  
>>> from
>>> kernel.com.
>>>
>>> Aptitude says I have udev 0.093-1 installed.
>>>
>>> Do you think it's the kernel that's the problem?  If I need to get a
>>> different version I will.  After five rounds of compiling (and  
>>> making
>>> changes to the configuration and recompiling) this weekend, I  
>>> think I've got
>>> the hang of it.  If you want I can post the .config file for you  
>>> to look at.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ian Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:01 PM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Cc: 'User discussion about IVTV'
>>> Subject: RE: [ivtv-users] Errors with IVTV 0.6.2 and Linux  
>>> 2.6.16.19onDebian
>>> unstable
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 13:30 -0500, David Pettit wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had already tried copied the files from /usr/lib/hotplug/ 
>>>> firmware to
>>>> /lib/firmware.  The same files exist in both locations.  I still  
>>>> get the
>>>> same errors.
>>>>
>>> How odd.
>>>
>>> I haven't seen 2.6.16.19 in Debian yet so I presume you build  
>>> your own
>>> kernel. Have you got CONFIG_FW_LOADER enabled?
>>>
>>> I'm using the Debian supplied linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 version  
>>> 2.6.16-14,
>>> which is the latest and is 2.6.16.17 and it works OK.
>>>
>>> Have you got udev installed?
>>>
>>> Ian.
>>>
>>>
>>
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