Hello forum,

I have a question about ivtv and Mandriva 2007.

From all indications, it appears that ivtv (version .7) is already pre-installed on Mandriva 2007 right out of the box. I have NOT installed any version of ivtv as of yet. But I did install the firmware, that's all.

After installing the firmware, I now have a video0 in the device directory.

I have the WinTV 150 capture card installed.

Running dmesg shows everything is working correctly for the ivtv section in the terminal window (see below).

After reading up at ivtvdriver.org, it says eventually the ivtv driver will be part of the Linux kernel but not yet, speaking of a future version of 1.0.

But since I can't find the ivtv utilities anywhere on my computer (ivtvctl, ivtv-tune, etc), I really don't know if ivtv came pre-installed on Mandriva 2007 or not.

Do I still have to install ivtv? Or is it already installed?

Below is the dmesg readout from the terminal window for ivtv, which I have not installed yet.

Thanks,
Roy

ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-5mdv SMP mod_unload 686 gcc-4.1
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tda9887 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 26552, rev C268, serial# 8754695
tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx 68, type 47)
tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has no IR remote
cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
Vendor: Initio Model: ST380021A Rev: 2.59
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: WD Model: 2500JB External Rev: 0412
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb-storage: device scan complete
wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda:<5>sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sda1 < sda5 >
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb2 < sdb5 >
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
tuner 2-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series))
ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================

The ivtv driver is "under development", but things seems to be improving quickly.
Your distro has installed ivtv, because that is what is recognising your tuner.

You can find a lot of help here:

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page

HTH

Thanks tredegar,

I'm now trying to find the utilities section for ivtv (ivtv-tune and ivtvctl) so I can change inputs to test the card out.

If ivtv is installed already, how can I find the utilities section for changing inputs or channels? They don't seem to be installed by doing a file search, and the terminal window does not recognize the commands such as ivtv-tune or ivtvctl, confirming my belief that they are not installed.

Can you change inputs or change channels from the utilities folder in the unpacked tarball alone?

Thanks much for your help,
Roy