Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Saturday 16 September 2006 02:43, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson wrote: > >> I just bought myself this fine card to use in a mythtv server but am >> having much troubles getting it to work. >> >> I originally followed the instruction given in the SuSE howto on the >> ivtvdriver site, only to find that the tuner I have, Samsung TCPG >> 6121P30A, is not supported with the 0.6.3 driver needed for the >> 2.6.16 kernel version in SuSE 10.1. I therefore upgraded to the >> kernel of the day, which is 2.6.18-rc5 and found that the tuner is >> supported. This time, however, the tda9887 kernel module is not >> found, and I can't find this module in the kernel configuration. >> > > tda9887 is merged into the tuner module. > > >> The problem I am having, with both the old and new kernel, is that >> the system locks up as soon as I try to read either /dev/video0 or >> /dev/video1. >> > > You can't use ivtv-0.7.x with 2.6.18. You can try the latest ivtv from > the ivtv-0.8 branch, that should work. Unfortunately, you also need the > newly released MythTV (0.20) and even that may not work for 64-bit > since a bug in the MythTV 64-bit v4l2 API support was discovered a week > ago and I am not sure if an update is already available. > > Hans > > Also, and excuse me if I'm wrong here, but I seem to recall the K8T800Pro as being one of the bridges on the long list of flawed VIA chipsets. I thought those caused the infamous spontaneous reboot even when you do get them working. Could that be part of the problem?
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