On 10/09/05, Matthias Appel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Ive got a WinTV PVR-250 which I want to use with my debian-testing box. > I followed the debian installation instructoin as found on the ivtv wiki > site. > > The driver seems to compile successfully but if I do a > "modprobe ivtv" > I got following output from dmesg: > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > ivtv: version 0.3.7 (k) loading > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13 586 gcc-4.0 > ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info > ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when > ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > > As I can see the card is not recognized by ivtv and no /dev/video0 > device is created (creating it whith mknod also does not work). > I also copied the firmware files to /lib/modules but this did not solve > the problem. > > the output of my "lspci -v" looks like this: > > > 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 > Video Capture (rev 11) > Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4500 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 > Memory at e7000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] > Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data > Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2 > > which also indicates that the card is not recognized.
This card is not a PVR-250. It's a regular WinTV card (no HW-MPEG2 encoding). You need to use the bttv driver from your linux-kernel. The ivtv-driver is for a complete different set of cards. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users
