If you are talking about no audio on the second card then I can say that I have audio on both tuners on my system.<br>
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Allan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scot L. Harris</b> <<a href="mailto:webid@cfl.rr.com">webid@cfl.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 08:32, Nick wrote:<br>> On 18/09/05, Allan Wilson <<a href="mailto:allanwilson@gmail.com">allanwilson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > There have been quite a few posts on how to get the PVR-500mce working but I
<br>> > thought I would summarize everything that I found out while getting my new<br>> > 500mce working. If anyone has anything to add please feel free to update.<br>> ><br>> > The PVR-500mce is a dual tuner card that only requires one coax cable in
<br>> > and then splits it to the two tuners. You want to make sure that you have<br>> > the the 0.3 version of the ivtv driver which can be found here,<br>> > <a href="http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3">
http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3</a>. I used the<br>> > ivtv-0.3.8.tar.gz version and it worked fine for me. This will get you<br>> > pictures on both inputs but no sound. To get the sound working you have to
<br>> > update the firmware with this link from Hauppauge's website. Then update the<br>> > firmware by doing the following:<br>> ><br>> > mkdir ~/pvrfirmware<br>> > unzip mce_cd_v27a.zip -d ~/pvrfirmware
<br>> > cp<br>> > ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwMakoA.ROM<br>> > /lib/modules<br>> > cp<br>> > ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwFalcn.rom<br>> > /lib/modules
<br>> ><br>> > ln -sf /lib/modules/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin<br>> ><br>> > Then just make sure that you have the proper /etc/modprobe.conf file. Below<br>> > is what mine looks like. I also have a PVR-250 card which is 81-0.
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > # ivtv modules setup<br>> > alias char-major-81 videodev<br>> > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv<br>> > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv<br>> > alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
<br>> ><br>> > Now you need to power off your computer and pull the power cable from the<br>> > computer to do a hard power off for at least 10 seconds. Then power on your<br>> > computer which will load the new ivtv modules. You can verify that
<br>> > everything is working fine by checking the end of /var/log/messages. If<br>> > there is any problems you need to look at everything between the ----- ivtv<br>> > start ------- and ------ ivtv end ------ lines. Once the power up is
<br>> > completed you need to run mythtvsetup to setup your two new inputs. I choose<br>> > to keep all my current settings then added the two new video sources making<br>> > sure for the first PVR-500 tuner to use /dev/video1 with tuner0 for the
<br>> > first input and /dev/video2 with tuner0 for the second input. There is an<br>> > option for tuner1 but make sure that you do not use it. The PVR-500 is<br>> > recognized as two PVR-150s and you have to setup as above to match this
<br>> > configuration. Then go in and map your channel guides to this new setup.<br>> > Exit out of mythtvsetup and you are ready to enjoy your new cards.<br>><br>> Thanks Allan,<br>><br>> For other new PVR-500 users, remember if you only have a single
<br>> PVR-500 capture card in your system, your video devices will be<br>> /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 (still use tuner0 for both cards) and<br>> modprobe.conf will be:<br>><br>> # ivtv modules setup<br>> alias char-major-81 videodev
<br>> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv<br>> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv<br>><br>> (As Allan noted, the PVR-500 is treated as 2 separate cards, hence the<br>> need for the 2 ivtv entries)<br><br>Did the 0.3.8 ivtv driver or firmware resolve the problems some of us
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