[ivtv-users] cx18 questions

[Andy Walls]

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 19:52 -0800, G.M. Humfrey wrote:
> Andy,
>   Thank you very much for your answers ; that does make things quite a
> bit clearer. 
> 
> Do you know please if the ivtv sections that the cx18 set replaces
> would be still likely to work?   I would think so, but would
> appreciate your opinion on the matter.

No they won't.  So much has changed that I know it will not work.

It's never a good idea to mix old and new modules for a subsystem (i.e.
v4l-dvb) anyway.

If you really want to try, I would suggest building as much of the
v4l-dvb driver tree as possible and installing it.  Since that won't
upgrade the i2c_core module, it may not work at all in the end.

However, I have done a lot of linux tv card driver development, and I
wouldn't even bother to attempt it, though.

Some lower effort, higher probability of success options for you would
include:

a) Installing Fedora 10 or 11 and reinstalling MythTV from the rpmfusion
or ATrpms repos, or

b) Buying a used PVR-150 on eBay or from some other source and
installing it in your current system.


Regards,
Andy

> Thanks again for your advise!