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?

-Mike



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