On 10/09/05, Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Just to be complete, you can find more on the driver you need here:
http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/bttv.html


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