[mythtv-users] New Setup Status

[Dave Anderson]

At 07:04 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:56, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > I thought I would give a status update since this list has been so helpful.
> >
> > I have a PIII 650 MHz with 512M Ram
> > 20G HDD for RH9
> > 160G HDD for MythTV
> > PVR-350 Tuner
> > Installed using ATrpms
> >
> > I have everything installed and have the video and sound working on the 
> PC.
> > Watching live tv I'm using about 38% CPU. I assume since live tv works,
> > recording will work as well.
> >
> > I still need to get the remote and video out working. When I installed 
> ivtv
> > via ATrpms, I didn't realize the video out on the pvr-350 was not 
> there. So
> > here is my question. Do I try to uninstall the ivtv from ATrpms so I can
> > download the latest? Or do I just install the Nvidia GeForce 5200 Ultra 
> for
> > tv out? I held back this card as per recommendations from previous posts.
> >
> > Does anyone have a pvr-350 and video out working? Was it hard to do?
> >
> > ----
>I have it working, it's not hard to do at all (IMHO)  It's just a matter
>of getting the latest ivtv drivers and following instructions therein.
>
>Before I tell you what to do, know this:  tv-out is excellent quality,
>no audio sync problems, that's good...  mythdvd and mythvideo still
>don't work with the 350 tvout so you'll break those (I'm betting that by
>year's end this will be a non issue though).
>
>Now, I'm assuming that you've got myth .12.  Uninstall ivtv (if what you
>are about to do does not work, then just re-install it and nothing's
>lost).  Get the Halloween edition of the ivtv driver (it is pretty
>stable and it works great with myth .12) from
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/ivtv/older
>
>Now you've got the file decoder-alpha-311003A.tar.gz,
>
>$ tar -xvzf decoder-alpha-311003A.tar.gz
>$ cd ./ivtv/driver/
>$ cp ../utils/videodev2.h .
>$ make
># make install
>
>(this last step needs to be by root)
>so far pretty easy no? (unless you got an error with make in which case
>you need to post here what the error is and we'll try to figure it out
>for you, or you can try the ivtv mailing list archive, I forget where it
>is but I think you can find it if you google for: ivtv mailing list)

I have tried this and the following is the output with the error I get when 
I run make.

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS 
-I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 
-mcpu=i586 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -include 
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o saa7115.o saa7115.c
saa7115.c:68:2: warning: #warning Using temporary hack for missing I2C 
driver-ID for saa7114
saa7115.c:1117: unknown field `inc_use' specified in initializer
saa7115.c:1117: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
saa7115.c:1117: warning: (near initialization for `i2c_driver_saa7114')
saa7115.c:1118: unknown field `dec_use' specified in initializer
saa7115.c:1118: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
saa7115.c:1118: warning: (near initialization for `i2c_driver_saa7114')
make: *** [saa7115.o] Error 1