[mythtv-users] How to get PVR-500mce working on FC3

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 08:32, Nick wrote:
> On 18/09/05, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There have been quite a few posts on how to get the PVR-500mce working but I
> > thought I would summarize everything that I found out while getting my new
> > 500mce working. If anyone has anything to add please feel free to update.
> >  
> >  The PVR-500mce is a dual tuner card that only requires one coax cable in
> > and then splits it to the two tuners. You want to make sure that you have
> > the the 0.3 version of the ivtv driver which can be found here,
> > http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3. I used the
> > ivtv-0.3.8.tar.gz version and it worked fine for me. This will get you
> > pictures on both inputs but no sound. To get the sound working you have to
> > update the firmware with this link from Hauppauge's website. Then update the
> > firmware by doing the following:
> >  
> >  mkdir ~/pvrfirmware
> > unzip mce_cd_v27a.zip -d ~/pvrfirmware
> > cp
> > ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwMakoA.ROM
> > /lib/modules
> > cp
> > ~/pvrfirmware/WinTV-PVR-150500MCE_2_0_30_23074_WHQL/HcwFalcn.rom
> > /lib/modules
> > 
> > ln -sf /lib/modules/HcwFalcn.rom /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> > 
> >  Then just make sure that you have the proper /etc/modprobe.conf file. Below
> > is what mine looks like. I also have a PVR-250 card which is 81-0.
> >  
> >  
> > # ivtv modules setup
> >  alias char-major-81 videodev
> >  alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> >  alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
> >  alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
> >  
> >  Now you need to power off your computer and pull the power cable from the
> > computer to do a hard power off for at least 10 seconds. Then power on your
> > computer which will load the new ivtv modules. You can verify that
> > everything is working fine by checking the end of /var/log/messages. If
> > there is any problems you need to look at everything between the ----- ivtv
> > start ------- and ------ ivtv end ------ lines. Once the power up is
> > completed you need to run mythtvsetup to setup your two new inputs. I choose
> > to keep all my current settings then added the two new video sources making
> > sure for the first PVR-500 tuner to use /dev/video1 with tuner0 for the
> > first input and /dev/video2 with tuner0 for the second input. There is an
> > option for tuner1 but make sure that you do not use it. The PVR-500 is
> > recognized as two PVR-150s and you have to setup as above to match this
> > configuration. Then go in and map your channel guides to this new setup.
> > Exit out of mythtvsetup and you are ready to enjoy your new cards.
> 
> Thanks Allan,
> 
> For other new PVR-500 users, remember if you only have a single
> PVR-500 capture card in your system, your video devices will be
> /dev/video0 and /dev/video1 (still use tuner0 for both cards) and
> modprobe.conf will be:
> 
> # ivtv modules setup
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
> 
> (As Allan noted, the PVR-500 is treated as 2 separate cards, hence the
> need for the 2 ivtv entries)

Did the 0.3.8 ivtv driver or firmware resolve the problems some of us
have been seeing with the second tuner on the PVR-500?