On Thursday 29 June 2006 20:27, Kenneth Hester wrote:
> I can't seem to get my PVR 500 MCE to work. I have tried several
> distributions
> and ivtv versions. Has anyone had any success with this?
>
> The driver also reports that it doesn't recognize the second unit on the
> card.
> Is this normal? Right after that it says it is the 2nd unit on a 500.
>
> It was purchased from Dell.
> It is a PVR 500 MCE with and FM receiver and no remote on the card.
>
> The first tuner works slightly. It has complete snow on the lower channels
> and slight snow on the upper channels. I am in the US on cable and the
> frequencies appear to be correct (2=55.250, 75=529.250). The sound is
> always good on all channels. I am running SUSE 10.1 with ivtv-0.6.3 with
> suse built kernel 2.6.16.13-default
> I have also tried 0.6.2 on SUSE 10.1 and 0.4.2 on SUSE 10.0 and the
> KnoppMyth distribution with the same results. The card appears to
> work properly under Windoze.
I guess it's a matter of broken Dell hardware.
Dell is well known to produce special broken hardware. I self have
a Dell Workstation here because it was a good price, but i'll NEVER
buy again any Dell stuff. The included soundcard (SB Live!) does not
work with the original SB Live! driver, i need a special version (emu10k1x).
Same goes for the onboard Sensors (there still not working, but i can
detect them) Also the ATI Radeon 9700 is a very broken Dell hardware crap.
I'm like 100% sure Dell saved some money in hardware for this card and
emulate/workaround this inside the driver.
greets,
Paul
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