On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 19:10 -0800, Michael wrote: > I'm not sure if anyone remembers me or not, but about a year and a > half ago, I had a lot of issues trying to get my Hauppauge HVR1600 > (CX18 chip) to load on my Linux box. Most of the errors had something > to do with the EEPROM. I remember Andy helping me a lot, sending me > emails about every day, with a new patch to attempt to correct, or at > least, diagnose the problem. Unfortunately, life got busy on me, and > my free time that I once had to try to get this card working vanished. > > Yesterday I checked this email account, and saw my Daily Digest of the > IVTV Mailing List. I figured it couldn't hurt to try again, wondering > how far this project had gone. After compiling the latest kernel > (PcLinuxOS lags behind on this in the repo's, and makeconfig always > gives warnings about certain features not being available on this > kernel version), I compiled and installed the driver. > > I ran a simple "mplayer -cache 8192 /dev/video0", and here was the > result: > http://localhostr.com/files/79a4da/snapshot4.png > > I just want to tell everyone thank-you for continuing to work on this, > and eventually making it work for people like me! It means a lot. I > now just have to figure out how to change the channel. > > Thanks for all the hard work! > -Michael
Michael, Thank you! :) and you're welcome. And thank you for putting up with my level of frustration early on in trying to get things working. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
