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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Last November I built a system intended to serve as a
dedicated MythTV box. Thus far, the “going” has been a real
struggle, although I managed to get the system up and running for the first
time yesterday. I believe part of reason things didn’t work right
out of the box because some of the linux drivers weren’t ready yet for
the hardware I’d purchased. Whether that’s ultimately the
case, I don’t know, but I finally saw images for the first time after
updating the NVidia driver yesterday. Also, I used Jarod’s Guide
for the setup.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Unfortunately, I may have gotten a little greedy last
night. I’d originally purchased a WinTV 401 video capture card with
the Conexant 2388x chipset. After struggling to get the card up and
running, I bought the PVR-250 card. The PVR-250 card was the one that was
in the system when I saw images for the first time and was the /dev/video0
device. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I installed the WinTV 401 card with the PVR-250 card,
FC3 seemed to autodetect the new card, and made an addition to my modprobe.conf
file. Unfortunately, when I look at my video devices I find /dev/video0 –
but there is no /dev/video1. Also, I’m no longer recording
TV. I see new programs listed, but there is no video to go along with the
recordings.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If I type:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/sbin/depmod –a</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/sbin/modprobe ivtv</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I get the /dev/video1 device, although the device doesn’t
stay on reboot. Also, if I launch mythtvsetup, I can’t add
/dev/video1 as a device. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Also, if I type:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/sbin/lsmod</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It does appear that the cx8800 have loaded.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So, my question to the group is: What have I missed
the in the setup? Here’s a copy of /etc/modprobe.conf and some
basics about my hardware:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias eth0 sk98lin</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias usb-controller ehci-hcd</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># lirc</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># wintv 401</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias char-major-81 videodev</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias char-major-81-0 cx8800</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># ivtv modules setup</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.8 ---</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'># nvidia kernel module</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7174</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7174</span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hardware:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ASUS P4P800-E MB</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Capture cards: PVR-250, WinTV 401</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Scott Creasman</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>creasman@oxy.edu</span></font></p>
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