SuSE 9.3 is not seeing my PVR-350 capture card

[dave at math.mit.edu (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that note you saw about manually hacking the .h file is way out of date, 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but some of what you saw may also be outdated.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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