n 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Vaughn Treude</b> <<a href="mailto:vltreude@deru.com">vltreude@deru.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello everyone,<br>I'm new to the group - haven't gotten into Myth TV yet. At present I'm<br>still struggling with my TV card.<br><br>Here's the background - I had a Hauppage TV card (which I used for video
<br>capture) running fine under Mandrake 10. Then the system's motherboard<br>died, taking the Hauppage card with it. I recreated the system on a new<br>mobo, installing Mandrake 2005 (mainly because I had a set of those CD's
<br>laying around.) So I got everything reinstalled and working on that. I<br>just needed a new TV card. I recently purchased a Hauppage PVR-150, and<br>although the system detects its presence, the card won't work. I've
<br>downloaded IVTV drivers for my kernel (the old 0.49 versions for 2.6.11)<br>and those load without error, but will not talk to the card.<br><br>All of the "how to" instructions I've found so far say you should test
<br>by doing a "cat" from /dev/video0. The problem is that on my system<br>this device doesn't exist. One of the "how to" documents said you could<br>create the /dev/video* devices manually, which I tried, but they were
<br>gone after reboot. So I imagine that udev (if I understand its purpose<br>correctly) isn't seeing the card. Do you think this might indicate that<br>the Hauppage might be bad?<br><br>Another bit of info: this is a dual-boot system, with Windows 98 on the
<br>other partition. I tested the previous TV card first under Windows, and<br>it worked right away. But the drivers that came with the PVR-150 are<br>for XP, so although Windows detected and identified the card correctly,
<br>the drivers wouldn't install. After some searching, I downloaded a<br>driver that might _possibly_ be right for the PVR-150 (it was supposed<br>to support all cards with its particular chipset), but they didn't work
<br>either. When I try to start WinTV 2000 it says it can't find some sort<br>of filter device. That could mean the card's bad, I suppose, or it<br>could just be the wrong driver.<br><br>I'm thinking I may be missing some video components on Linux, since it
<br>doesn't create /dev/video* and I haven't tried a TV card before on this<br>install. But it doesn't seem likely, as I've downloaded and installed<br>the many, many video-related packages and managed to get Xine working
<br>and playing DVDs. So I'd think Mandrake should detect and configure the<br>card without any trouble, so maybe it _is_ bad. But I'm still hopeful<br>that I won't have to return the thing. Any suggestions of video-type
<br>packages that I might have missed? (I suppose I could try upgrading to<br>kernel 2.6.18 as the IVTV docs suggested, so I can get more recent<br>drivers, but I think my problem is more fundamental than that.)<br><br>Thanks,
<br>Vaughn</blockquote><div><br><br>Upgrade to a newer distro. Fedora and Ubuntu are popular. I would even suggest MythDora. It has all drivers, etc for an entire myth system put into the system installer. It will whipe that 98 install, do you really need it?
<br><br>With fedora ivtv is as simple as intstalling the ATRPMS's repo and then - <br><br>yum install ivtv<br>yum isntall ivtv-firmware<br><br>depmod -a<br>modprobe ivtv<br><br>And now it works.<br><br>I dont know much about Mandriva, just letting you know there are alot easier distro out there.
<br><br>Mitchell<br></div><br></div>