[ale] TV tuner card problem

[Calvin Harrigan]

The pvr-250 is not a regular frame grabber.  It's a hardware based mpeg
encoder.  Support for it is very limited.  The ivtv driver supports both the
pvr-250 and the pvr-350.  The mythtv project also supports it through the
ivtv driver.  As others have pointed out, it's hard to figure out which
boards actually have a bttv supported chipset these days.  Mostly because a
lot of manufacturers are moving away from the brooktree chipsets to the
conexant chipsets.  Try getting a lower level hauppauge card like the
wintv-fm or something like that...  :0)

mythtv - www.mythtv.org
ivtv driver:  http://ivtv.sf.net

The mythtv project is pretty sweet.  I have a dedicated box running at home
pretending to be an overly capable Tivo.

Calvin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ChangingLINKS.com" <groups at ChangingLINKS.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:29 PM
Subject: [ale] TV tuner card problem


> I have been soooo spoiled by Suse 8.1-9.0 that my current problems
amplified.
>
> I thought that Hauppauge TV cards were compatible with Linux, so I bought
one.
> A WinTV-250 PVR. To my surprise, it was not automatically detected. I
manually
> added it using Yast2, but it still didn't work.
>
> As I did more digging, I learned that I need something called bttv
compiled in
> the kernel (I think). I have searched for this "bttv" and have not been
> successful. Moreover, it is NOT available as a package in Yast2.
>
> Questions:
> 1. Can anyone recommend a nice *hardware* TV tuner card that will be auto
> detected in Suse (8.2-9.1)?
> 2. Should I stick with the Hauppauge WinTV-250 PVR?
> 3. Where can I get bttv?
>
>
> PS
> Here is what happened when I went looking for bttv (recommended by various
> websites):
>
> computer:~ # vim /etc/modules.conf
> computer:~ # bttv
> -bash: bttv: command not found
> computer:~ # rmmod bttv
> rmmod: module bttv is not loaded
> computer:~ # modprobe bttv
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o:
init_module:
> No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
/lib/
> modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
bttv
> failed
> computer:~ # /sbin/modprobe bttv
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o:
init_module:
> No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
/lib/
> modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
bttv
> failed
> computer:~ # /sbin/modprobe tuner
> computer:~ # /sbin/modprobe msp3400
> computer:~ # /sbin/modprobe bttv
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o:
init_module:
> No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
/lib/
> modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o: insmod
bttv
> failed
> computer:~ #
>
> -- 
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> Drew Brown
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