For what it is worth, I finally got my setup working. This is more of a blog type post of what I did to get my setup working. Perhaps others trying to get their setup working will find it useful.
Setup: Fedora Core 5, WinTV PVR-150, Intel Chipset motherboard 1GHz PIII I just wanted to record shows off of TV. No fancy home theater setup. No multiple tuners. No DVB. I followed Jarod Wilson's mythtv setup guide religiously (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php). My problems started when I got to the part about installing a capture card driver (ivtv). I got video initially, but I could not change channels. I ran "yum update" to see if it would help with the channel changing problem, and afterwards video didn't work at all. To further confuse me, the ivtvctl program was missing the -p and -u parameters after the upgrade. I was off of Jarod's path completely at this point. I later discovered the v4l-ctl program has some similar parameters to the ivtv-ctl program although I ever did figure out the equivalent v4l-ctl parameters. I read the troubleshooting guide at ivtvdriver.org, but my problem persisted after coldbooting. I checked for conflicting module versions, but everything appeared where it should be. Next, I downloaded the fedora kernel development stuff, compiled the driver and installed it myself. After a cold-boot, I was able to get video, but I was getting "i2c cannot write to register XX" errors after changing channels a couple times with a "cat /dev/video0" thrown in to test each channel change. By the way, the mythtv-setup channel scanner is a good test of your ivtv setup. No, I did not have a VIA motherboard. Okay, back to basics. I compiled the kernel myself and checked to make sure all the required configuration settings were set as per the how-to. Next I did a "make distclean; make; make install" in my ivtv 0.8.0 driver source directory and cold-booted again. Same problem. Video worked, channel changing worked (via ivtv-tune), but eventually I got the pesty i2c errors. I tried the ivtv svn trunk version, but it would not compile at all. I checked my cpu load and noticed that I was running at a load of about 2 to 3 while capturing video and a load of 1 with just misterhouse running. I had a 1GHz processor, but I guess it wasn't enough and somehow the i2c commands were getting lost on their way to the card. So...I purchased a new ECS RS-400 motherboard with a built-in ATI Radeon processor with s-video and rca output jacks, a 512 DDR2 RAM module, a 2.6 GHz P4, and a 500 Watt ATX power supply. After booting up the system, I had some "no eeprom" errors and discovered I hadn't seated my PVR150 card all the way! I reseated the card and now I'm mythtv'ing away. Bottom line: mythtv and video on linux is for advanced users only. You may get lucky and get the atrpms software to work first time, but be prepared for a fight. John Dillenburg _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
