On Thursday 21 September 2006 07:57, Mike wrote: > 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.
Good to know > >> 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. I am using mythtv 0.19 and the tuner is working very well with that. I have some problems setting the correct sizes for the capture, since mythtv is designed for NTSC but I have a PAL card. The width/height ratio is only correct when I use full resolution (which is fine for me). > > 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? That was the root of the problem. Once I set some PCI setting, can't remember which, from 32 to 64 the problem was solved and I am now a happy owner of two working tuners. I appreciate your help on this. -- Guðlaugur Jóhannesson Tel: +354 849 8405 http://www.raunvis.hi.is/~gudlaugu/ _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
