[mythtv-users] Which video card works best with a Samsung DLP HDTV?

Thu Nov 11 21:30:20 UTC 2004

OK.  My MythTV box is up to FC2, and seems to be working fairly well
... Haven't figured out how to get DirecTV working on it yet but I can
pick up and record local OTA channels!  But that's for another time
and topic of discussion ...

Right now, I need to pick up a new(er) video card to hook up to my
Samsung DLP as it's painfully obvious that the card I currently have
(an old Riva TNT nVidia card  with 4MB of memory!) works but not so
well.  The machine is fairly old (PIII, 667mhz) but it's working well
so far.  I'm not really interested in spending a pile of $$$ on the
latest and greatest video card technology but I'd like it to work well
with MythTV/Linux and the Samsung DLP both now and possibly for future
expandability (HD when I get an HD capture card) ...

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks,
TLD

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christopher McEwan <christopher.mcewan at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:24:48 +0000
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can't get my (new) PVR-250 working
To: Footer <footer at gmail.com>, Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>

Personally, I would go with FC2 and just apt-get everything, its the
quickest/easiest way to get your system fully up and running.

Just follow Jarod's excellent guide !

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:27:08 -0600, Footer <footer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are the unresolved symbol errors:
> ----------
> [root at media_furnace apt]# /sbin/depmod -a
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/bttv.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/ir-common.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/msp3400.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/tvaudio.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/tvmixer.o
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-35_39.rh9.at/updates/drivers/media/video/video-buf.o
> [root at media_furnace apt]#
> ----------
> And I also just discovered this when launching mythbackend:
> ----------
> bash-2.05b# mythbackend
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 Channel::Open(): Can't open: /dev/video0
> /dev/video0: No such device
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 Channel::Open(): Can't open: /dev/video0
> /dev/video0: No such device
> Couldn't find input: Television on card
>  is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
> /dev/video0 is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 mythbackend version: 0.16.20040906-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2004-11-02 16:16:57 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2004-11-02 16:16:59 Found changes in the todo list.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:59 Scheduled 0 items in 0.005023 seconds.
> 2004-11-02 16:16:59 Seem to be woken up by USER
> ----------
> What the heck is cardinput???
>
> So many questions, so little time.  :-)  I'll give the rc2 drivers a
> try ... Thanks for the thoughts thus far!
>
> TLD
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:12:11 -0000, John Harvey
>
>
> <john.p.harvey at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > What are the unresolved symbols.
> > It does load ok on RH9 I use a 350 there which uses the same driver but more
> > of it so the 250 is definitely ok.
> > Which version of ivtv are you using. It is quite likely that you may well
> > hit problems with the tuner module being newer than is recognized by RH9
> > (And FC1 & FC2 as well) .
> >
> > I would recommend starting with the latest rc2 candidate available from
> >
> > http://67.18.1.101/~ckennedy/ivtv/
> >
> > since the auto-detection of tuners and other things is much better than the
> > 0.1.9 version.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Footer
> > > Sent: 02 November 2004 21:39
> > > To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] Can't get my (new) PVR-250 working
> > >
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > > I'm fairly new to MythTV and brand new to installing drivers for TV
> > > tuner capture cards in Linux.  I recently purchased a PVR-250 directly
> > > from Hauppauge and am in the process of trying to load the drivers for
> > > it on my RH9 box.  The exact description of the capture card is (from
> > > the box it came in):  WinTV-PVR-250 model 980 and I've been able to
> > > see it using lspci -v and know that it's a rev 01 card.
> > >
> > > Backing up a bit, I built my MythTV box about a year ago (without TV
> > > tuner card) and hooked it up to my HDTV and it works perfectly (for
> > > displaying digital pictures, playing MP3s, Myth Weather, etc).  At the
> > > time FC1 was just coming out but I went with RH9 anyway.  I'm
> > > currently running the 2.4.20-35_39 kernel and I believe I've
> > > successfully loaded the correct ivtv drivers but I'm continuing to get
> > > "unresolved symbol" errors after running /sbin/depmod -a so obviously
> > > I still don't have everything quite right.  I've been using Jarod's
> > > Fedora Myth(TV)ology site and this mailing list to
> > > install/troubleshoot.
> > >
> > > At any rate, I guess my real question is should I continue to try to
> > > get things working on RH9 (hopefully with help from the fine folks
> > > here) or bite the bullet and go to FC2 (FC3?) and hope things go
> > > smoother?  Has anyone been successful at running a newer PVR-250 on
> > > RH9 with the appropriate ivtv drivers using apt-get?
> > >
> > > Currently:  STUMPED but DETERMINED to make it work!
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > TLD
> > > aka Footer
> >
> >
>
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Regards,

~CM