On 2/20/07, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> are there any experiences with the Hauppauge PVR cards (150 MCE and 350) > on AMD 64 bit systems? -- Do the ivtv modules work on 64 bit Linux? Are > there any hardware issues to consider? Will it work on athlon X2 systems?
I have an AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ processor and a PVR-150. I don't have much experience with a bunch of other capture cards, but I will say that I have had my problems. I think that most of it boils down to the kernel you are running and what ivtv version you have. I'll put it like this. I have ran Ubuntu Dapper and it was working well. Then I upgraded to Edgy and kept getting 'Firmware Unresponsive" messages. I then upgraded to Feisty and continued to have the "Firmware Unresponsive" problem. I tried to disable 'cool 'n' quiet', cpu scaling, power saving...even switched pci slots but nothing would fix it. Finally, I know this is a pain, but I downloaded a vanilla kernel (2.6.19.3) from kernel.org and compiled it on Edgy. Installed the .9.1 drivers and it has been working great now for a few weeks. The only differences between the working and non-working, that I could see, was the kernel. The reason why I upgraded was because I got a new tuner card that needed a later version of video4linux. V4L was updated and included in kernel 2.6.19. When I tried to compile v4l on previous kernels, ivtv would constantly crash onload. So, that were all the problems that I have had with it. But once it's running, it runs well. I didn't realize this before, but I love the fact that it has an encoder on the card. It saves a heck of a lot of load on the cpu. Hope this helps!
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