[mythtv-users] New Setup Status

Dave Anderson dave at ineedasite.com
Wed Nov 12 10:43:58 EST 2003


At 09:25 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote:
>You need to uncomment the line:
>
># uncomment if you use i2c 2.8.0+
>#CFLAGS += -DNEW_I2C
>
>In the Makefile.

That worked, onward I go. Thanks


>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 07:10, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > At 07:04 AM 11/12/2003, you wrote:
> > >On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:56, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > > > I thought I would give a status update since this list has been so 
> helpful.
> > > >
> > > > I have a PIII 650 MHz with 512M Ram
> > > > 20G HDD for RH9
> > > > 160G HDD for MythTV
> > > > PVR-350 Tuner
> > > > Installed using ATrpms
> > > >
> > > > I have everything installed and have the video and sound working on 
> the
> > > PC.
> > > > Watching live tv I'm using about 38% CPU. I assume since live tv works,
> > > > recording will work as well.
> > > >
> > > > I still need to get the remote and video out working. When I installed
> > > ivtv
> > > > via ATrpms, I didn't realize the video out on the pvr-350 was not
> > > there. So
> > > > here is my question. Do I try to uninstall the ivtv from ATrpms so 
> I can
> > > > download the latest? Or do I just install the Nvidia GeForce 5200 
> Ultra
> > > for
> > > > tv out? I held back this card as per recommendations from previous 
> posts.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have a pvr-350 and video out working? Was it hard to do?
> > > >
> > > > ----
> > >I have it working, it's not hard to do at all (IMHO)  It's just a matter
> > >of getting the latest ivtv drivers and following instructions therein.
> > >
> > >Before I tell you what to do, know this:  tv-out is excellent quality,
> > >no audio sync problems, that's good...  mythdvd and mythvideo still
> > >don't work with the 350 tvout so you'll break those (I'm betting that by
> > >year's end this will be a non issue though).
> > >
> > >Now, I'm assuming that you've got myth .12.  Uninstall ivtv (if what you
> > >are about to do does not work, then just re-install it and nothing's
> > >lost).  Get the Halloween edition of the ivtv driver (it is pretty
> > >stable and it works great with myth .12) from
> > >
> > >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/ivtv/older
> > >
> > >Now you've got the file decoder-alpha-311003A.tar.gz,
> > >
> > >$ tar -xvzf decoder-alpha-311003A.tar.gz
> > >$ cd ./ivtv/driver/
> > >$ cp ../utils/videodev2.h .
> > >$ make
> > ># make install
> > >
> > >(this last step needs to be by root)
> > >so far pretty easy no? (unless you got an error with make in which case
> > >you need to post here what the error is and we'll try to figure it out
> > >for you, or you can try the ivtv mailing list archive, I forget where it
> > >is but I think you can find it if you google for: ivtv mailing list)
> >
> > I have tried this and the following is the output with the error I get 
> when
> > I run make.
> >
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
> > -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586
> > -mcpu=i586 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -include
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h   -c -o saa7115.o saa7115.c
> > saa7115.c:68:2: warning: #warning Using temporary hack for missing I2C
> > driver-ID for saa7114
> > saa7115.c:1117: unknown field `inc_use' specified in initializer
> > saa7115.c:1117: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
> > saa7115.c:1117: warning: (near initialization for `i2c_driver_saa7114')
> > saa7115.c:1118: unknown field `dec_use' specified in initializer
> > saa7115.c:1118: warning: excess elements in struct initializer
> > saa7115.c:1118: warning: (near initialization for `i2c_driver_saa7114')
> > make: *** [saa7115.o] Error 1
> >
> >
> >
> >
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