Hey! I have been banging my head against the wall with a WinTV PVR 350. Here is the deal: I followed the instructions here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Install_IVTV_Edgy) to get the ivtv driver working with a PVR 350 card and and a Via "epia m" board.
The first problem I ran into was that after the Edgy server install the system would not boot. I figured out that that was related to the server kernel being compiled for i686 (BTW that should be mentioned somewhere) and the epia m being an i586 architecture. I fixed this by booting from the Desktop live CD, chroot'ing into the server install and installing the 2.6.17.10-generic kernel, which is what I am running right now. Then I followed the instructions to install the ivtv driver as well as its firmware (version 1.18.21.22254). When I modprobed ivtv, the system hung after a short while with the following message: "ivtv0: Error initializing firmware". I can't give a full log of what happened as the system froze and there was no log after reboot but once on the screen I was able to see messages along the lines of: "encoder firmware dead!" and "decoder firmware dead!" I tried several firmware versions including pvr_1.18.21.22254_inf.zip but no change. It just keeps hanging... Any idea anyone? Again specs: Epia M, PVR350, Ubuntu server with kernel 2.6.17.10-generic. Thanks for any help!!! _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
