[mythtv-users] Can't get my (new) PVR-250 working

[Christopher McEwan]

Personally, I would go with FC2 and just apt-get everything, its the
quickest/easiest way to get your system fully up and running.

Just follow Jarod's excellent guide !


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:27:08 -0600, Footer <footer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are the unresolved symbol errors:
> ----------
> [root at media_furnace apt]# /sbin/depmod -a
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/bttv.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/ir-common.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/msp3400.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/tvaudio.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/tvmixer.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/video-buf.o
> [root at media_furnace apt]#
> ----------
> And I also just discovered this when launching mythbackend:
> ----------
> bash-2.05b# mythbackend
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 Channel::Open(): Can't open: /dev/video0
> /dev/video0: No such device
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 Channel::Open(): Can't open: /dev/video0
> /dev/video0: No such device
> Couldn't find input: Television on card
>  is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
> /dev/video0 is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 mythbackend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2004-11-02 16:16:59 Found changes in the todo list.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:59 Scheduled 0 items in 0.005023 seconds.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:59 Seem to be woken up by USER
> ----------
> What the heck is cardinput???
> 
> So many questions, so little time.  :-)  I'll give the rc2 drivers a
> try ... Thanks for the thoughts thus far!
> 
> TLD
> 
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:12:11 -0000, John Harvey
> 
> 
> <john.p.harvey at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > What are the unresolved symbols.
> > It does load ok on RH9 I use a 350 there which uses the same driver but more
> > of it so the 250 is definitely ok.
> > Which version of ivtv are you using. It is quite likely that you may well
> > hit problems with the tuner module being newer than is recognized by RH9
> > (And FC1 & FC2 as well) .
> >
> > I would recommend starting with the latest rc2 candidate available from
> >
> > http://67.18.1.101/~ckennedy/ivtv/
> >
> > since the auto-detection of tuners and other things is much better than the
> > 0.1.9 version.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Footer
> > > Sent: 02 November 2004 21:39
> > > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] Can't get my (new) PVR-250 working
> > >
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > > I'm fairly new to MythTV and brand new to installing drivers for TV
> > > tuner capture cards in Linux.  I recently purchased a PVR-250 directly
> > > from Hauppauge and am in the process of trying to load the drivers for
> > > it on my RH9 box.  The exact description of the capture card is (from
> > > the box it came in):  WinTV-PVR-250 model 980 and I've been able to
> > > see it using lspci -v and know that it's a rev 01 card.
> > >
> > > Backing up a bit, I built my MythTV box about a year ago (without TV
> > > tuner card) and hooked it up to my HDTV and it works perfectly (for
> > > displaying digital pictures, playing MP3s, Myth Weather, etc).  At the
> > > time FC1 was just coming out but I went with RH9 anyway.  I'm
> > > currently running the 2.4.20-35_39 kernel and I believe I've
> > > successfully loaded the correct ivtv drivers but I'm continuing to get
> > > "unresolved symbol" errors after running /sbin/depmod -a so obviously
> > > I still don't have everything quite right.  I've been using Jarod's
> > > Fedora Myth(TV)ology site and this mailing list to
> > > install/troubleshoot.
> > >
> > > At any rate, I guess my real question is should I continue to try to
> > > get things working on RH9 (hopefully with help from the fine folks
> > > here) or bite the bullet and go to FC2 (FC3?) and hope things go
> > > smoother?  Has anyone been successful at running a newer PVR-250 on
> > > RH9 with the appropriate ivtv drivers using apt-get?
> > >
> > > Currently:  STUMPED but DETERMINED to make it work!
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > TLD
> > > aka Footer
> >
> >
> 
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Regards,


~CM