On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:50 +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got myself a 500-MCE to play with about a week ago and I still haven't
> managed to get it to work :-(. It doesn't help that I don't know what the
> tuners are (I've seen several posts saying to look under the sticker but I
> can't see where exactly). I live in New Zealand (PAL B/G)
>
> The machine is an athlon 2500+, nforce 2, nvidia geforce4, onboard sound,
> etc.
> I started with kernel 2.6.10-rc2 using ivtv-0.3.2e +
> cx25840-wm8775-2005-01-03_23.56.03-patch. I finally gave up on this and
> upgraded to 2.6.11-mm3 with ivtv-0.3.2i. I had some problem compiling
> 0.3.2i, I had to copy i2c.h from /usr/include/linux to the ivtv directory
> since gcc claimed id wasn't defined. I'm guessing it was
> loading /usr/src/linux/include/linux/i2c.h instead, but I don't know why.
> Anyway, copying /usr/include was all that was needed to get it to compile.
That was not even close to the correct thing to do. I sent a patch a few
days ago that works with recent kernel versions. Your solution is
actually making the ivtv module try to mess with a field that doesn't
exist in recent kernels. i.e. you are playing with memory that isn't
yours.
--Brian
>
> On the old setup I was able to get /dev/video{0,1,16?} and a couple others
> created. However, every attempt to read from these files blocked after
> around 650k. E.g. dd if=/dev/video0 of=/tmp/video0.mpg count=1000 would
> work, but count=2000 woudln't. The generated mpg was static, with some
> larger coloured blocks of static towards the bottom. Occasionally I would
> get much less than 650k, but normally I'd get within a few k either side.
>
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