Hello List :) I am new here. The reason for my question is this. I have had Hauppauge pvr350 card for about year and a half now. It works great on Windows, but who cares. Consistently no luck with Linux. Now I do want to make a htpc around it.
I have tried to use this card with Linux, at least with Suse, Debian, Ubuntu and KnoppMyth. I always end up with then same situation: test "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" and "mplayer test.mpg" produces video clip with nothing in it. Just grey picture with dots and no sound. Now before going into details, I would like to know if there were different versions of this card, maybe not all supported. If yes, where to find out more about this. Well I wasnt going to post any details, but I cant resist. My latest attempt is with Ubuntu 6.10. I followed instructions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Install_IVTV_Edgy This is a fresh installation with only some stuff from Automatix2. I will not send all that dmesg etc. stuff for you now, because I am at work. But here are some hints: dmesg produces no errors that I understand. There are lots of lines that have to do with pvr350, but stuff between === START INIT IVTV ========= and ===== END INIT IVTV ==== is missing. It looks like this caption from troubleshooting section: " When you load the driver with "modprobe ivtv" (maybe after unloading ivtv before with "modprobe -r ivtv") an the following result appears, ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading Linux version: 2.6.12 preempt 586 gcc-3.3 In case of problems please include the debug info between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== the driver does not find your card. You can check if your card is detected with lspci It should detect something like Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) If not maybe your card does not sits correctly in the PCI-slot or you must change PCI-Slot, so that card is detected correctly in linux. " Now lspci does detect my card. I did change the PCI-slot anyways. Running "ivtvctl -a" produces a line where it states clearly: " not an ivtv driver device!". TIA Jani _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
