Thank you for the clarification. I'll try these out and see if I can't get this card to work. Otherwise, I think I hear a 250 calling my name.
I'll post back with my results... Jeremy DeStefano On Tuesday 05 April 2005 16:23, Jeremy DeStefano wrote: > I'm testing a machine with FC3 with the latest kernel with MythTV 0.17. I > put in the Hauppage WinTV Radio Card. The card seems to be recognized by > FC as a WinFast 2000 XP Card. I know this needs the CX8800 drivers. > According to the website for the CX drivers, they are included in the 2.6 > Kernel. > > I've added the > Alias Char-Major-81-0 bttv > Alias Char-Major-81 cx8800 > > in the modprobe.conf as Jarod's HOWTO says My doc does NOT say to add that. For a cx88 card, it should be: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 cx8800 You shouldn't be loading the bttv driver, that's for bttv cards. > however, the card is not being > assigned a /dev/videox. Is there something I'm missing? Yes. > Do I need to > recompile the Kernel with the CX drivers? No. But you might want to: # apt-get install cx88-kmdl-`uname -r` # apt-get install cx88 > I know with IVTV, its the > ivtv-fb command that actually sets up the /video0. No it doesn't. With ivtv, 'modprobe ivtv' on FC3 triggers udev creating /dev/video0. > Is there a comparable > command for the CX? # modprobe cx8800 > Or is this card just not worth the time and effort? It was a free card for > me to test with, so if it would be easier to go get a PVR-250 or something, > its not a problem. PVR-250 is pretty much the gold standard of (a -----Original Message----- From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:58 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] WinFast 2000 XP Capture Card & FC3 _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
