I have been able to install mythtv; however, I have been unable to get my PVR-350 to work. It is a brand new card (purchased April 2006) and worked properly under windows (so I know it is installed correctly).

I select "PVR-x50, PVR-500" in my capture card in the settings then the "video device:" goes to "/dev/video0" and "Default input:" to "Television." When I try to change the default input, it states, "Could not open '/dev/video0' to probe its inputs/"

I continue to set-up as usual. After I reboot and MythTV loads, I am unable to use any TV functions. "WatchTV" just flashes the screen then returns to the main menu.

Any advice?

What does "dmesg" say?

See the first Problem/Diagnoses item on this page for how to get the log info: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CheckingLogFiles

The log from this command states that there is a firmware error. Specifically, the error is as follows:



If it is of any help, here is more information about the card that appears in the log file:



Thank you for your interest in helping me to solve this problem.

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Not enough info on the card. Does it say "type = 4" anywhere in there? If you can post the whole extract that would be best...

There is no type= (anything) on that log.

I do not know how to export the entire log, I'm working on that (I'll be able to cut and paste once I am able to ssh in to the mythtv box)

try a reinstall. I have seen a few posts about firmware not loading after a fresh install --
and after a reinstall it works

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... highlight=

It would look something like these lines from mine:

There should actually be a whole bunch of lines in there that contain the word "type". Try:

I'm particularly concerned about "type = 4" (please note the spaces) because there is a known bug with tuners identified as such.

One of the things that caused me a bit of grief was the lack of congruence between the card setup screen and the input setup. When you run mythtv-setup, there is a spot in the capture card setup for the default input. It needs to match the input shown in the upper right of the coressponding input in the input connections setup. What happened to me is I set the capture care default setting to Tuner and the input connection setup was showing Tuner1. I had to go back to the capture card setup and adjust the default input to match. Otherwise I experienced the problem you described. This is with a PVR-150.

S

Following up on sparks' suggestion. About the 4th posting in this thread contains configuration directions for a vanilla setup: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9424 I should probably make a wiki page with this stuff...

I did a clean auto-install. But this time I used the standard 586 drivers. The pvr-350 is now working.

I am not sure why the i686 setup would not work. I am running mythtv on an Athlon 2800+, which should be compatible with the i686– at least that's the the installation instructions state.

Anyway, the 586 install made it work. I hope this is some help to others. Here is more info about the hardware setup:

An old eMachines H2825 with:
-AMD Athlon 2800+
-Hauppauge PVR-350
-Nividia GeForce4 (integrated)
-integrated sound
-512Mb ram
-120Gb hard drive
-dvd
-cd±r

Installation of R5Beta7.

I had the same problem with the same error messages. A clean re-install clears up the problem.