[ale] TV tuner card problem

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2004 08:18, you wrote:
> 
>>The pvr-250 is not a regular frame grabber.  It's a hardware based mpeg
>>encoder.  Support for it is very limited.  
>>Calvin
> 
> 
> Calvin, you made my day!
> With Calvin, Geoffrey, Suse (and others helping) I KNOW I will be successful 
> with this installation - even if I have to learn a ton of new tricks. 
> 
> I also learned that lack of autodetection is NOT Suse's fault. Well, unless I 
> happen to have an Bt878 (the fact that it would not autodetect supports the 
> theory that I have a Bt848 - but I am going to shut down and LOOK).

bt848 should be auto-detected as well, it's the earlier version of the 
bt chipset and is supported by the bttv code.  I've got one running 
right now that was autodetected.

Seems that you card is not a bttv card based on other posts.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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