I just got a PVR 350 and tried R4V2. It installed fine, and xmltv grabbed the listings, but it says /dev/video0: no such device so I can't actually watch tv.

lspci -v shows the card is found but I don't know how to tell why it doesn't show up at /dev/video0

Any suggestions?

It is an old PC (Celeron 500 with 256MB memory and a 20GB disk). I also tried the card in my desktop (1.7GHz P4 running Red Hat 9) but I can't ivtv to work there. I installed ivtv and ran all the modprobes and they all work fine except the last "modprobe ivtv" and it complains it can't load it. I was hoping to get this running in the old PC and hook it up to my tv downstairs.

Is the card seated properly?

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cesman

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I did try reseating it and am installing again so we'll see if that makes a difference.

would lspci -v show it if it wasn't seated properly?

With KnoppMyth, you don't have to install ivtv(it is already done). After installing and during every boot, you should see what video tuners are in the system. When the system first comes up after install, if to have a hardware tuner, the firmware should be exacted and modules load. The only thing you have to worry about is getting tv out working w. 350 if that is something you desire. So if you when about the normal process of configuring you may have messed up something. Just folowing the installation instruction and you should be ok.

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cesman

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I'm sorry, I confused the matters by mentioning a second system. I first tried KnoppMyth on an old 500 MHz celeron and it didn't recognize /dev/video0. I then put the card in my main desktop system running (1.7GHz P4) Red Hat 9 but couldn't get "modprobe ivtv" to work after following all the instructions for installing it and extracting the files off the CD.

I reinstalled KnoppMyth on the celeron and it recognizes /dev/video0 but I just get a blank screen when trying to watch tv (haven't hooked up speakers yet to check sound); and in the terminal window it complains about ivtv timeouts so I don't think it is working. I rebooted twice (once shutting it off) and it couldn't find /dev/video0 either time so it my old hardware may be flaky - damn.

The other system is a Red Hat 9 system and I couldn't get ivtv to load on it when I tried putting the card in it. My next step is probably to try swapping harddrives and the card and installing KnoppMyth on the P4 and see if that works. I'll give that a try tomorrow or this weekend.

I had a little better luck with the 1.7 GHz P4. The install goes fine and it finds /dev/video0

When I go to watch tv I get anywhere from 0.5 seconds to 10 seconds of watching tv and then it locks the machine (have to turn it off and reboot). I am using an old 20GB disk since I didn't want to overwrite Red Hat 9 on my normal disk.

Sometimes the machine is froze so bad, the caps/num lock lights won't even work and other times they do.

Does this appear to be a symptom of the drivers just being buggy still or is it worth going out and buying a 120GB disk and that would have a good chance of solving the problem.

Thanks,
Dave