[mythtv-users] Fwd: I'm getting real pissed off about IVTV

Richard Bronosky mythtv at bronosky.com
Thu Jan 26 13:09:49 UTC 2006


This should not be an inssue in KnoppMyth correct?  Any KnoppMyth users 
want to chime in?  This is the reason I chose KoppMyth, to avaoid 
duplicate driver conflicts.

Peter Darley wrote:

>Richard,
>	I had a similar but not identical issue.  When I did cat /dev/ 
>video1, I got garbage, instead of a 0 length file.
>	I resolved my problem by changing the drivers around.  Apparently  
>the tuner.ko and tveeprom.ko that came with Fedora was interfering  
>with the ivtv drivers.  What I did was:
>
>cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/
>mv tuner.ko tuner.ko.bak
>mv tveeprom.ko tveeprom.ko.bak
>
>cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/drivers/media/video
>cp tuner-ivtv.ko tuner.ko
>cp tveeprom-ivtv.ko tveeprom.ko
>
>modprobe -r ivtv
>depmod -a
>modprobe ivtv
>
>Thanks,
>Peter Darley
>
>On Jan 25, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I tried:
>>cat /dev/video0 > ~/tmp/video0.mpg
>>[wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]
>>cat /dev/video1 > ~/tmp/video1.mpg
>>[wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]
>>
>>video0.mpg contained a viewable file that was 5.7meg
>>video1.mpg was 0 bytes
>>
>>    
>>
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