Alex LeDonne wrote: > On 9/3/07, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello everyone: >> Here's a question for the MythTV experts in the group. >> >> Here's the background - I had a Hauppage TV card (which I used for video >> capture) running fine under Mandrake 10. Then the system's motherboard >> died, taking the Hauppage card with it. I recreated the system on a new >> mobo, installing Mandrake 2005 (mainly because I had a set of those CD's >> laying around.) So I got everything reinstalled and working on that. I >> just needed a new TV card. I recently purchased a Hauppage PVR-150, and >> although the system detects its presence, the card won't work. I've >> downloaded IVTV drivers for my kernel (the old 0.49 versions for 2.6.11) >> and those load without error, but will not talk to the card. >> >> All of the "how to" instructions I've found so far say you should test >> by doing a "cat" from /dev/video0. The problem is that on my system >> this device doesn't exist. One of the "how to" documents said you could >> create the /dev/video* devices manually, which I tried, but they were >> gone after reboot. So I imagine that udev (if I understand its purpose >> correctly) isn't seeing the card. Do you think this might indicate that >> the Hauppage might be bad? >> >> Another bit of info: this is a dual-boot system, with Windows 98 on the >> other partition. I tested the previous TV card first under Windows, and >> it worked right away. But the drivers that came with the PVR-150 are >> for XP, so although Windows detected and identified the card correctly, >> the drivers wouldn't install. After some searching, I downloaded a >> driver that might _possibly_ be right for the PVR-150 (it was supposed >> to support all cards with its particular chipset), but they didn't work >> either. When I try to start WinTV 2000 it says it can't find some sort >> of filter device. That could mean the card's bad, I suppose, or it >> could just be the wrong driver. >> >> I'm thinking I may be missing some video components on Linux, since it >> doesn't create /dev/video* and I haven't tried a TV card before on this >> install. But it doesn't seem likely, as I've downloaded and installed >> the many, many video-related packages to get Xine working. But I'm >> still hopeful that I won't have to return this card. Any suggestions of >> video-type packages that I might have missed? (I suppose I could try >> upgrading to kernel 2.6.18 as the IVTV docs suggested, so I can get more >> recent drivers, but I think my problem is more fundamental than that.) >> >> Thanks, >> Vaughn > > I'm not a MythTV expert, but I remembered reading something... ah, > here it is. On http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 > > "NOTE: There have been reports (2006-12 timeframe) that Hauppauge is > putting the HVR-1600 inside of the PVR-150 box; if you're purchasing a > retail PVR-150, carefully examine the packaging - there should be some > indication that the hardware inside is actually a HVR-1600 and not a > PVR-150." > > This is in the bullet point where the HVR-1600 is listed as Not > Working. Are you 100% sure you have a PVR-150? Just one data point to > check.
Good point. I got it through mail order in a plain white box, so I wouldn't have been surprised. But there's a sticker on it that says PVR-150, so I think it's the right one. :-) Vaughn > > -A > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
