[mythtv-users] Mandriva and PVR150 - Hardware upgrade/system reinstall results in no output

[Ryan Steffes]

On 9/15/05, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:32 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> > Everything I do to upgrade my MythTV machine always comes back to bite
> > me in the butt. I upgraded my motherboard to one with on board S/PDIF
> > out and a gigabite ethernet nic. In the process I managed to hose my
> > linux install and had to reinstall everything. Fortunately I only
> > hosed the /usr/ and / partitions, so all my old video is intact.
> > However, now I can't get my PVR150 to work. It appears to load just
> > fine, but cat /dev/video0 just does absolutely nothing. I've attached
> > my dmesg output, and emailed the ivtv but haven't gotten a response
> > yet. Searching for this issue seems to give a few hits of people with
> > the same problem, but no one apparently resolving it. I'm using the
> > "recommended" firmware.
> >
> > Using 2.6.11-6mdk kernel
> 
> Why don't you just use Thac's (or the contrib's) mm kernel and put
> yourself out of the pain.
> 
> b.
> 
> --
> My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.
> 
> Brian J. Murrell



Because I didn't know about it? What's the difference in Thac's kernel 
versus the standard one? I was running just fine off one I compiled from 
source a while back, same version incidentally, until I decided I really 
wanted digital sound, and destroyed everything else in the process. 
Sidenote: The digital sound in DVD's work's wonderfully. Yeah me :/
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