[mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

[Jim Reith]

At 02:33 PM 10/27/2005, you wrote:
>Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a little nervous about
>breaking this new Myth system now that my wife relies on it so much!
>I'm hoping to get this done in time to record ER for her tonight...
>
>I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's
>guide and help from this list (thanks everyone!).  It's on a Dell GX
>140 (1.7GHz) and a PVR350 which is working great.  I just bought a
>PVR500MCE and am getting ready to put it in when I get home from work today.

You pick it up on buy.com in the recent sale? Mine's on backorder

>What do I do to set this up?  I guess add
>
>      alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>      alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
>
>to my modprobe.conf file.....?   What else do I need to do?

What version of ivtv are you running? You'll need one of the more
recent ones, 3.8 through 4.0 would be good. If you use 4.0 (the
latest stable now) you should have everything autodetected.


>I see the following in Jarrod's guide- is this relevant to setting
>up the PVR 500- to tell it to use the tuner for input... Or is it
>only for testing?
># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -d /dev/video1
># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4 -d /dev/video1
># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 /dev/video1
>
>Then of course, set it up in mythtv-setup - I think I can handle that...
>
>This was setup about a month ago, so I assume somewhat recent...  My
>cable modem is down this week (thanks comcast) so I can't see what
>versions I am running from here.
>
>Thanks
>    Todd
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