> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 3:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] problems installing mythtv > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:54:00PM +0200, Paul de Vries wrote: > > Q2: is it possible to install mythtv directly on debian, following the > > wilson guide, or are more appropriate guides available? > > Installing MythTV on Debian is quick and painless. A message at > http://www.luci.org/luci-discuss/200409/msg00006.html explains how to > install MythTV. Getting the driver for your WinTV-PVR?50 card to work > will be a bit more complicated, at least partly because the ivtv does > not come with the required firmware image (due to copyright) and > Hippauge changed the location of the Microsoft Windows DLL on the > CD-Rom. I ended up having to hack the perl scripts to manually unpack > the firmware images. > > I am running Debian with a mix of stable and unstable packages, a > custom 2.6.11.12 kernel and ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j drivers for my PVR250. > > Notes on ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j: > (1) the 'make clean' target does not remove all of the intermediate > files > (2) the saa7115 module accesses the i2c client struct directly instead > of using the new access methods, and this breaks saa7115 on the 2.6.12 > kernels.
You do know that the firmware is in all the Haupauge driver files. You can find them all here http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions Also the ivtv drivers recommend a specific firmware version as that's what they were designed to use. More information can be found at the link.
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