[mythtv-users] PIP question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:11:38PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/18/2004 11:15 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >Well, we've also just added a second one to our box, and -- once I got
> >the insmod issues worked out (is there a database of what card and
> >tuner parameters match which 5-digit card model numbers, somewhere ) --
> >it Just Worked.
> >
> >Actually, it Just Worked even *before* I got tuner=2,39 figured out,
> >but all I got was snow.  :-)

> The best database of card/tuner parameters is ivtv-0.1.10pre2 patched 
> with one of Chris Kennedy's recent patches, thanks to all the work Hans 
> Verkuil did on autodetection.  As an aside, the hard part is convincing 
> people to take *all* the module options they think are necessary for 
> ivtv (which are often incorrect, anyway) out of their 
> mod{ules,probe}.conf.  :)

I'm on 100z, and it missed type 39; I had had no options at all (and
was just insmoding everything in an init script, since it needs to load
at boot time anyway)... I may upgrade to newer drivers, but it seems to
have morphed from beta into production on me, so I have to make sure I
can roll back.

> Note, that ivtv-0.1.10pre2-ckXXX isn't necessarily the best driver to 
> use with Myth.  (It works great for me, but YMMV.)

So far, I've been getting fantastic mileage.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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