On 12/11/05, John Layt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok Thanks, John!
On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:33, WauloK wrote:
> On 10/4/05, WauloK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was thinking of combining my pctv computer media center and the server
> > into one machine after buying a new mobo/ram/cpu/case.
> >
> > Does anyone use a miro PCTV card in their Mandriva PC to watch tv? Is
> > there some special setup/driver I need or will Mandriva detect it
> > automatically?
> >
> > I currently have a celeron 433 with dvdrom and pctv card for multimedia
> > but will upgrade probably to a sempron 2000+ (or so) with 512Mb RAM and a
> > mobo (FOXCONN?) with builtin sound/video/lan. I might buy a local
> > magazine which has Mandrive 2005LE on it so I have the latest version to
> > install as well.
>
> Okay. So I reinstalled with Mandrivalinux 2006 and it detects the card and
> all, but when I set it to "Australia" "PAL" and "Autodetect" for tuner and
> maker it scans for channels, but never finds any channels at all. Tried
> switching to Miro for maker and different tuners but still finds nothing. I
> know there are channels there cos the card worked when in a PC with Windows
> 98se and could find all the channels.
>
> Anyone have a cluebat for me?
I never had any success with the Mandrake wizard for my Pinnacle PCTV card
(previously know as Miro), I always had to manually set the options for tuner
and sound in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. Google for the bttv module options
and have a look on your card to try identify the chips involved.
Cheers!
John.
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Ok Thanks, John!
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