I guess I got lucky, but I had almost no problems getting the PVR-500MCE working. I'm using a Chaintech 7NJL6 Motherboard (which is NVIDIA nForce2 based). I really got lucky, because I did almost no research on this before I bought. Two other things that seem to help:
I can't use the automatic load scripts for mythbackend. Instead, I load it using Jarod's ~/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh just before I load the frontend (see http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#auto). I think this may be some sort of driver loading issue (maybe the one Jarod mentions in the liirc section here http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#lirc?) and may not even be related to the PVR-500MCE, but if I try it the other way, all I get is static like the others. And I had to add this to my modprobe.conf file (above and beyond Jarod's instructions): alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv alias tuner tuner-ivtv (this was from this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/20096?search_string=pvr-500;#20096) I am a linux novice, so once I get this stuff working, I stop messing with it. Hope this helps! Rob --- Garry Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/25/05, Xiaotian Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 5/25/05, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/25/05, Xiaotian Sun > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 5/25/05, james houston > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Check it out here: > > > > > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/92kh8 > > > > > > > > > > Looking thru the archives it seems some > people have > > > > > gotten this card to work perfectly and > others have > > > > > only gotten static from it. > > > > > > > > > > Anyone care to weigh in... > > > > > > > > I'm getting good pictures, but having IRQ/DMA > troubles using the > > > > latest 0.3.x development driver. It spits out > > > > > > > > ivtv: IRQ: IVTV_IRQ_DEC_DMA_ERR > > > > > > > > message from time to time and causes machine > lock-up. > > > > > > Xiaotian , > > > > > > what motherboard and chipset are you using? > > > > ASUS Pundit-R, which uses ATI IXP200 chipset. > Some people were saying > > change PCI slots may help in this situation. But > for Punidt-R, this > > is really not an option, due to the physical > limitations. The two > > cards I have (PVR-500 and pcHDTV-3000) can only be > fit into the box in > > one configuration. > > > > I've been trying various bios config and kernel > parameters, such as > > enabling/disabling io-apic , enabling > pci=routeirq, etc. No help. > > > > Xiaotian > > I'm using a PVR-500MCE, along with two PVR-250s, one > of these is an > MCE also. All of these I picked up on ebay. At > first, I did have > troubles which appeared to be related to IRQ > sharing. My box is a Dell > GX260, P4 1.8 Ghz. After switching slots a few > times, and upgrading > the BIOS (A03->A09, quite a jump), everything works > together > perfectly. > Unfortunately, due to frustration and stupidity on > my part, I was not > very methodical in my testing, so I'm not sure if I > finally found the > correct IRQ settings, the correct PCI slots, or if > the fix was simply > due to the BIOS upgrade. > IVTV driver 3.2r > > --Garry > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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