I bought it through our local computer store on campus. I got it at their cost of $135. I help them with troubleshooting, so they let me buy stuff at cost. It came in quickly - about 2 days after ordering.
Thanks for the info. I'll drop in the PVR500 and go straight to mythtv-setup and see what happens. I should have new ivtv drivers as this system is only a month old - i'm not home now so can't check. I guess I look in logs for version numbers? Todd On Thu, October 27, 2005 2:45 pm, Jim Reith said: > At 02:33 PM 10/27/2005, you wrote: >>Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a little nervous about >>breaking this new Myth system now that my wife relies on it so much! >>I'm hoping to get this done in time to record ER for her tonight... >> >>I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's >>guide and help from this list (thanks everyone!). It's on a Dell GX >>140 (1.7GHz) and a PVR350 which is working great. I just bought a >>PVR500MCE and am getting ready to put it in when I get home from work >> today. > > You pick it up on buy.com in the recent sale? Mine's on backorder > >>What do I do to set this up? I guess add >> >> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv >> alias char-major-81-2 ivtv >> >>to my modprobe.conf file.....? What else do I need to do? > > What version of ivtv are you running? You'll need one of the more > recent ones, 3.8 through 4.0 would be good. If you use 4.0 (the > latest stable now) you should have everything autodetected. > > >>I see the following in Jarrod's guide- is this relevant to setting >>up the PVR 500- to tell it to use the tuner for input... Or is it >>only for testing? >># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -d /dev/video1 >># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4 -d /dev/video1 >># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 /dev/video1 >> >>Then of course, set it up in mythtv-setup - I think I can handle that... >> >>This was setup about a month ago, so I assume somewhat recent... My >>cable modem is down this week (thanks comcast) so I can't see what >>versions I am running from here. >> >>Thanks >> Todd >>_______________________________________________ >>mythtv-users mailing list >>mythtv-users@mythtv.org >>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
