[mythtv-users] If you have a PVR250 card, please tell me...

[Joe Marcom]

Nick wrote:

> Are you actually loading the ivtv module? This is the driver for _all_
> of the Hauppauge PVR-xx0 cards and without it, you will _NOT_ get card
> the card working. Note that ivtv is not in the mainline kernel
> (hopefully in the 2.6.18/2.6.19 release).
> 
Thank you very much for that info. No, I don't have ivtv. Given that 
most/all current distros seem to support TV and use Hauppauge cards, I 
would never have thought that a vital module would be omitted.  I can 
only wonder what other "details" have also eluded me all these months. 
Thanks again.
                                     joe