Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 06:27, Stevens wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 09:06, Rylan Cottrell wrote:
> > Check your chipset if it is VIA KM400 you are pretty much screwed.
> > The only help I found when I encountered the problem after hours of
> > trying to get it to work for me was a note on the ivtv website to buy
> > a better motherboard.
> >
> > Cheers
> > rylan
>
> I'll second that. My current business is sales and installation of video
> surveillance equipment which includes building pc-based DVRs. The
> easiest way to make everything work correctly is to use a mobo with an
> Intel cpu and an Intel chipset. Seems to be the case for every DVR
> hardware/software combo I have used. I have carried this through to my
> office and personal pc's and have always had good results. YMMV
>
> Fred

Yes, but we have gone far afield here, as neither the OP or myself
has Via.

Note I have two different versions of  ivtv working just fine on two different 
machines with SuSE 9.3.  The problem is seldom the chipset of the mobo
and far more likely to be a quirk of the proper version of ivtv than anything 
else.

The first and best recommendation is to ruthlessly root out any SuSE
modules for ivtv and build ivtv from source.  Then get the binary 
firmware blobs from the ivtv site and put them in the proper places
(and the definition of "proper place" has danced around quite a
bit over the releases).

The OPs problems would be better addressed to the MythTV list
or the ivtv list.

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John Andersen