[mythtv-users] debian: can't install ivtv driver

[starcycle]

On 4/24/08, starcycle <starcycle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've always used custom kernels. For this, I've tried 2.6.22,
>  2.6.24.2, and 2.6.24.4. The problem I've having now with doing that is
>  that modules supposedly required for pvr-150,
>
>  ( detailed in this otherwise excellent wiki:
>  http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto )
>
>  *do not exist by default in the kernel!!*
>

Okay, making some progress. I found out that using fwd slash in make
menuconfig will let you search for the module and show everything it's
dependent on. Never knew that before. :D  So I did that for all the
required modules, enabled the dependencies, and the drivers started
showing up in the menus.

I think I got them all, lsmod shows ivtv, etc., dmesg shows the card
initializing, and there's a /dev/video0 that wasn't there before. But
now myth-setup says it can't open the card for probing - any ideas? I
also noticed there's a /dev/video24 and /dev/video32 - is that
anything I need to wonder about?

btw, I'll just post dmesg here, since it's different than what Nick's
looked like:

ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.1.0
ivtv0: Initializing card #0
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level,
low) -> IRQ 5
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ### <-- ???

### and then later:

Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
ivtv:  End initialization

It seems like it's not loading the firmware, but there's nothing in
dmesg about firmware. I unpacked it into /lib/firmware -that's the
right location? Maybe it is some hotplug problem...?

thanks