SuSE 9.3 is not seeing my PVR-350 capture card

[David Backeberg]

Hi David:

Your first problems were definitely because of ivtv vs. bttv.

I)B´ve been successfully using the PVR-250 in my gentoo box for the last 
year plus. I)B´ve never used any rpms to run the PVR card, however the ivtv
source tarball builds and modprobes beautifully for me.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND downloading the latest stable tarball, (making sure 
/usr/src/linux really points to your kernel source tree), reading the very 
short install doc in that source tree, and trying to see if that works for 
you. Don)B´t bother with any wikis or google until you try that. I think 
that note you saw about manually hacking the .h file is way out of date, 
because I)B´ve never had to do that. There IS a bit of modprobe craziness, 
but some of what you saw may also be outdated.

Now that I)B´ve said don´t read google or wikis, I´ve made a short and 
incomplete list of things I)B´ve dealt with on my website:
http://math.mit.edu/~dave/mythtv

Feel free to email me off-list to make specific complaints; maybe I)B´ve 
seen your problems before.

-- 
David Backeberg (dave at math.mit.edu)

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, David Kramer wrote:

> Drew Taylor wrote:
>> On Sep 30, 2005, at 4:39 PM, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>>>
>>> I was pretty sure the Hauppage cards do NOT use the bttv
>>> drivers, but rather the ivtv drivers.
>>
>> From what I remember of the MythTV docs, I definitely remember  Hauppage
>> and ivtv being mentioned together.
>
> I saw notes elsewhere to the contrary, but
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#pvr250
> backs both of you up.
>
> This is WAY more complicated than I expected.
>
> Ferinstance, that page gives an example of how to set up the modules
> 2.4-style, not 2.6-style in a /etc/modprobe.d/ file, and uses directives not
> supported in that system:
>
> alias char-major-81     videodev
> alias char-major-81-0   ivtv
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> options ivtv debug=1
> options tuner type=2
> options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
> add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner  <---????
> add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c      <---????
>
> It also says you have to select your own tuner from tuner.h (I had to find a
> separate ivtv RPM to get the kernel module source), but not how to know
> which one to use, which is silly because that page is all about the
> PVR250/350, so they should know, There's two entries that say PVR150 in
> them, and none referencing the 250 or 350.
>
>
>
> uninew:/etc/modprobe.d # modprobe ivtv
> FATAL: Error inserting ivtv
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11.4-21.9-default/extra/ivtv.ko): Unknown symbol in
> module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> Other modules are complainging about the options too, like msp3400,
>
> Oh well, back to google.
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