<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK - I got my 500 working great in with my 350. Here's what I did. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I had ivtv 0.4.0, btw-</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1) I added these 2 lines to my /etc/modprobe.conf - may not have been necessary, but I did it and it works</DIV><DIV>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv</DIV><DIV>alias char-major-81-2 ivtv</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2) installed card</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>3) went into mythtv-setup and setup the card - i said it was an MPEG2 (250/350 type).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>4) tried it out and found there was no sound :( but picture looked good :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>5) Then i followed instructions from Allan Wilson from a message (Sept 18th) on this list</DIV><DIV> a) Download <A href="http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/mce/mce_cd_v27a.zip">http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/mce/mce_cd_v27a.zip</A></DIV><DIV> b) mkdir ~/pvrfirmware</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> c) unzip mce_cd_v27a.zip -d ~/pvrfirmware</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> d) cp ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwMakoA.ROM /lib/modules</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> e) cp ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules<BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> f) ln -sf /lib/modules/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">6) shutdown for 10 seconds</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">7) startup and enjoy.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> Thanks</DIV><DIV> Todd</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 27, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Todd Houle wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">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...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What do I do to set this up? I guess add</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv </DIV><DIV> alias char-major-81-2 ivtv </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to my modprobe.conf file.....? What else do I need to do? </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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?</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(243, 242, 235); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.4px;"># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -d /dev/video1</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(243, 242, 235); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.4px;"># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4 -d /dev/video1</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: rgb(243, 242, 235); "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.4px;"># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 /dev/video1</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then of course, set it up in mythtv-setup - I think I can handle that... </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks</DIV><DIV> Todd</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mythtv-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>