On Tuesday 03 January 2006 12:52, R. Geoffrey Newbury wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:58:33 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >On 1/1/2006 9:23 AM Steve Adeff said the following: > >>On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:05, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >>>I have MythTV 0.18.1 running with a PVR-250 card. About two months ago, > >>>I added a pcHDTV-3000 card but still can't figure out how it get it > >>>recognized by the OS. I'm running 2.6.13-r5 on Gentoo. > > I've tried it both ways but no matter which, I get this output > > >>>from dmesg: > >>> > >>>cx88xx: disagrees about version of symbol tveeprom_hauppauge_analog > >>> > >>>I am under the assumption that the HD-3000 card is one of the Multimedia > >>>controllers listed and thus, is installed correctly. Or am I wrong? > >> > >>I was going to say you don't need to recompile kernels for this card, but > >> then I saw your running Gentoo... > >>anyway: > >>http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DigitalTelevisionDVB > > > >Thank you very much! I'll read it and see if I can get any further... :) > > Two things which are not made too clear in any of the readmes/how-to's. > The HD3000 card can do both NTSC and ATSC. It uses the cx8800 module for > NTSC and the cx88-dvb module for ATSC. > If the wrong one is loaded first....as it appears yours is doing. > > Secondly, you should now use the kernel tveeprom module instead of the > hauppuage (ivtv) module for the PVR250 card. Once you re-compiled the > kernel, you ended up with 2 tveeprom modules. Previously you used the ivtv > version to interface with the PVR250 card. Do a 'find / -iname > 'tveeprom*'. One version may (or may not) be called tveeprom_ivtv. In your > case probably not. > > These modules do the almost the same thing but are (often) named the > same.... (The linux version of 'dll-hell'). The modules seem to have been > merged as of ivtv .41. You may want to upgrade to that version if you are > running something earlier. > Along with others, I have not had any luck with ivtv .51 and the HD3000 > card. I suggest you not go there. > > I don't know how Gentoo does it but if you have a modprobe.conf file, > comment out the line reading 'alias tveeprom tveeprom_ivtv' in the section > loading your ivtv drivers. > > In order to ensure that you get the cx88-dvb module first check that > cx88-dvb is listed first in modules.pcimap, which lives in the > /lib/modules tree (different places in different distros in my > experience... and it may not exist). It always helps to have the cx88 > modules loaded after the ivtv modules, so that if things go wrong, the > HD3k card shows up as /dev/video1 (instead of appearing as > /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0) as does not push your pvr250 card from /dev/video0 > to /dev/video1. > > In Fedora 4, I do not need to have an entry in modprobe.conf for the > cx88-dvb module. I presume because the module is listed in modules.pcimap > and is loaded when the hardware is recognized. You still need to have > both sets of firmware loaded too. > > HTH > > Geoff
good advice, the link I sent does mention this though, if you spend the time to read it all. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
