You shouldn't need the bttv driver, only ivtv. Take a look at the HOWTOs on http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Documentation. I'm not sure if stuff "just works" with MythDora (or really sure what MythDora is)
The documentation on ivtvdriver.org is your best bet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- James S. White primary/voip: (615) 469-0268 928 Mountain Valley Dr. .O. mobile: (256) 476-2619 Nashville, TN 37209-5155 ..O fax: (866) 260-5465 http://www.jameswhite.org OOO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. -- Abraham Lincoln On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Randall Hand wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before, but Google hasn't been much help to me > so far. > > I'm fairly new to all this TV stuff in Linux, and I'm trying to get a MythTV > rig up and running. I've got an old Hauppauge PVR-250 in a "MythDora" > (Fedora) both, fresh install. The lspci show this Hauppauge as a "Brooktree > BT878", and seems no matter what I do it loads upt he bttv & bt878 drivers. > It loads the ivtv drivers as well but they dont' seem to actually do > anything. Manually unloading everything and reloading ivtv & videodev > leaves me without any /dev/video0. The bt878 drivers work just fine, but > seem to be completely software based while I had really hoped for hardware > MPEG encoder acceleration. > > Am I missing something? I'm using MythDora 2.1 and that comes with ivtv > 0.4.3. I thought all Hauppauge cards had on-board acceleration for use with > the ivtv chipset, but did the older ones not? > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > Randall Hand > Visualization Scientist > ERDC MSRC-ITL > _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
