I have a PVR500 on an Epia SP13000 motherboard, running Fedora Core 4, kernel 2.6.13-1.1524.
I followed Jarod's guide except for using RPM's for VIA Epia motherboards http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/ which build in the unichrome/libXvMC/libXvMCW drivers in the xorg tree. Kernel 2.6.13-1.1524 has via drm built in too. All that works fine. (But note, you should install ImageMagick first or together with xorg-x11 to avoid a dependency race caused solely by rpm headers and databases not being in sync.) I used the quick method of Jarod's guide to install ivtv and mythtv: that is, I used yum (which meant that I took the default configuration.) This gave me ivtv-4 and mythtv 18.1. I have a pcHDTV3000 card which is not presently installed. I did however, save the ivtv tveeprom-ivtv module, and copy over the kernel tveeprom module into the ivtv tree. I commented out the recent standard 'alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv'. The card works. I did 'cat /dev/video0 > test1.mpg' last night and got 30 seconds of David Letterman's monologue... (which was interesting as I thought I was going to get Jay Leno!) Both video to the monitor and audio out to the amp worked fine. Oh, and dmesg shows everything expected, without errors: 2 cards are recognized. Here's when the problems start in mythtv-setup. I'm not sure if the first is a symptom or normal. (I have to be a little vague as I am not at that computer). In the card section, there is no separate choice for the PVR150/500, only for V4L capture cards. I *presume* that this is an artifact of the changes made in moving to the ivtv-.4 version level, where the 150/500 series got folded into the 'standard' stream. If I'm supposed to see a separate choice, this must be a mythtv problem as the card is properly recognized, and as far as I can tell, the dmesg output is the same as it was with version 3.7. I can enter the cards, set sources, and define the inputs. If I exit mythtv-setup at any point, there are no reported errors. However when I go to the channel section, I cannot scan. That capability is not available, is 'grey-ed out' so to speak, as if mythtv does not recognize the card. The channel information provided by zap2it is there, and I can jump into the channel screen and see the XMLID's etc. and switch between the 2 line-ups I set up. But I cannot scan. When I exit mythtv-setup, there is a long list of error lines, all the same reported by the QMYSQL module: QMYSQL::data::Column 3 out of range. (The prototypical error message...."Something went wrong but we don't care enough to actually tell you what...") A look at the table listing with ls shows that only 3 tables had been accessed (settings and 2 channel tables). Using mysql (as user mythtv) and describe 'table' showed that none of their structures looks like a likely candidate for a range error.... Anyone got answers? 1) Is it now usual that PVR500 cards are just V4L capture cards? 2) Why can't mythv 'see' the card and allow scanning? The hardware setup is good. 3) Is this a mysql error? (I note that attempting to log in using 'mysql -u root -p' got me a 'user [EMAIL PROTECTED]' refused..) 4) Does anyone think that compiling an svn download would help? Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
