[mythtv-users] IVTV 0.8.1 and PVR 500 with new Samsung tuners

[David Fishburn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ed Gatzke
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 9:52 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] IVTV 0.8.1 and PVR 500 with new Samsung tuners
> 
> 
> I see a recent (11/19) release of new IVTV drivers.  Anyone 
> try these with a recent PVR 500 card?
> 
> I used a patched older version just to get the PVR 500 
> working, but the quality was still sketchy.  
> 
> People with both Win and Myth systems said the quality was 
> fine with the updated windows drivers, but still not great on 
> the linux/myth side.  
> 
> I am running Knoppmyth R5D1 with the patch described at 
> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11871&highlight= 
>   summarized below:
> 
> cd ~ ;wget 
> http://www.madslab.com/pvr500_samsung_patch_2.6.17.diff  ; cd 
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/video/
> cp tuner-types.c /root ; patch -p0 < 
> /root/pvr500_samsung_patch_2.6.17.diff ; cd /usr/src/linux 
> make ; make modules_install ; rmmod ivtv ; rmmod tuner ; 
> modprobe tuner ; modprobe ivtv 


I am using Ubuntu Edgy, with the new Samsung tuners in the pvr-500.
It was unusable with the 2.6.17 kernel.
For some reason I was unable to compile the 2.6.17 kernel, so I could not
add the samsung-patch to tuner_types.c.

My last resort was to move to the 2.6.18-1 kernel, which has solved all my
pvr-500 issues.  All channels on both tuners (plus audio) is great.

Though, I cannot yet get lirc_i2c working with the 0.8.1 pre release of
lirc.
[   57.969608] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 
[   57.975562] lirc_i2c: no version for "lirc_unregister_plugin" found:
kernel tainted.

No luck on the ivtv mailing list yet either.  They had seen this with the
2.6.17 kernel and one user had suggested a makefile update and a workaround,
but they did not work for me with the 2.6.18 kernel.

If you do get it running, could you let me know what you did.

HTH,
Dave