[mythtv-users] PVR-250 With Myth-TV WITHOUT IVTV?

[Mario L]

When you say refuses to boot, how much have you diagnosed this?  Does
the same thing happen when you modprobe ivtv before rebooting?  Does
the computer just freeze at that point?


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:26:43 -0500, herminio <herminio at comcast.net> wrote:
> I've tried "make" "make install" several times.  Usually, my PC refuses
> to boot up after that.  Maybe it is a problem with the Suse distro, or
> the ivtv driver, or me.  I've been using linux since the 0.9 kernel.
> Sometimes, I just want things to work on my computer, and not have to
> "hack" and "chop" at every piece of new hardware I throw in my Pc.
> 
> I'll try the ivtv list, again.
> 
> Mario L wrote:
> > What is difficult about going to chris kennedy's site and downloading
> > the source code.
> > Make sure you have kernel sources installed in /usr/src/linux
> >
> > make, make install ?
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:28:32 -0600, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net > wrote:
> >
> >>herminio wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is there anyway of using Myth-TV WITHOUT the IVTV drivers?  I have a
> >>>PVR-250 with the Conexant CX23416-12 chip.  I'm about to get another
> >>>PVR-Card just so I can use Myth-TV.
> >>>
> >>>Unfortunately, IVTV on SUSE 9.1 Pro has been a living nightmare to get
> >>>working.  When I have to record a program, I just boot into W2K and
> >>>use SageTV, which works flawlessly.
> >>
> >>What you're asking is like asking if you can use SageTV without the
> >>Windows 2000 drivers for your card.  Your problem lies with Suse and
> >>IVTV, not MythTV.   I don't know if you've tried, but working with the
> >>IVTV mailing list to resolve your problems with the distribution you
> >>chose would be the route pursue.
> >>
> >>Kevin
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