Problem w/ TV card on Linux

[Vaughn Treude]

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> On 9/3/07, Vaughn Treude <vltreude at deru.com> 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

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