> 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?
Hmm, I have a K8T800 and while it works fine with non-PVR500 cards, I
cannot even boot the PC when a PVR500 is installed. But that is a BIOS
problem, not a chipset problem. But I have to admit that because of that
I've never tested a K8T800 with a PVR500. But I expect no problems with
these newer VIA chipsets, AFAIK only older ones are affected.
Hans
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