[mythtv-users] vertical lines from pvr-500

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:17:14 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:18, Tim Hamer wrote:
>> Garry Cook wrote:
>> > On 9/14/05, *Scot L. Harris* <webid at cfl.rr.com 
>> > <mailto:webid at cfl.rr.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> >     On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:18, Tim Hamer wrote:
>> > 
>> >      >
>> >      > try the newest unstable drivers from the ivtv site. they might
>> >     not work
>> >      > perfectly though, so you might have to try a couple versions.
>> >     i've been
>> >      > using .3.7d for a while now with no problems.
>> > 
>> > 
>> >     Thanks for yours and Garry Cook's response.
>> > 
>> >     It looks like I have 0.3.7k from ATRPMS.  Should I try an older version?
>> > 
>> >     At least I know this has worked.  Just need to figure out what level of
>> >     sacrifice I need to make to get it to work.  :)
>> > 
>> >  
>> > I wouldn't recommend going with older drivers, unless you had it working 
>> > and upgraded, which broke things, then you might want to roll back. The 
>> > version numbers increment for a reason, things should be getting better 
>> > with each new version.
>> > The only reason that I mentioned my old driver version was because I 
>> > seem to answer the question 'Is the PVR500 working for anyone' a few 
>> > times a week. Each time I say something like 'with drivers from about 2 
>> > months ago', which probably isn't very helpful, so I just wanted to post 
>> > the actual driver version before someone called me on it.
>> >
>> 
>> yeah, the newest drivers should be fine. my problem was with using the 
>> rpms. i guess some people get them to work with 150/500s but i couldnt.
>
>Will check out the drivers on sourceforge.  Maybe that will work. 
>Either that or I will have to sacrifice larger animals the machine.  And
>here I thought the days of making sacrifices to the SCSI chain were
>over.  :)

You probably neglected the phase of the moon when you did the last
sacrifice. Chickens for *new* moon and goats for *old* moon...And middle
of the cycle like right now..forget it!


G.
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