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Er, sorry, I was looking in the wrong place. After closely reading a few
threads on this list I was able to find out that the AIW is a POS in it's
current state. :)

Guess it's time to junk the AIW and buy a better card.. Anyone have any
success with DVB cards in North America on the Dish Network? (Bell
ExpressVu)?

- Jerry

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jerry Rocha wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> I couldn't find information on such a setup anywhere on here. I'm running
> X 4.3.0 and used 'XFree86 -configure' to setup the initial config file.
>
> I ended up with Card0 (3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]), which is a PCI
> card. Card1 is an ATI Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] (All in Wonder).
> Obviously, I wish I had done more studying before purchasing the AIW ...
> But I'm stuck with it. ;) I'm using the GATOS project for support of the
> AIW and I've managed to get video capturing working using the ATI Viewer
> program supplied with that project.
>
> When I load up MythTV's setup program and go to 4. Inputs, it seg faults
> and complains about the /dev/video0 device not supporting a certain call.
> This was while I was using the Radeon as my GFX + Tuner card. Now I'm
> trying to get an older Rage II card working as my primary display...
> Without much luck.
>
> Does anyone have a working XF86Config I can use as an example?
> Particularily for an AIW in tuner-only mode. Should I not even bother
> loading the AIW into my X Config and only use it for video capture?
>
> Is this even possible? The AIW /can/ be used as a tuner, right? :)
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!
>
>

No, but I have some leads. I can dig them up when I get home from work
today. So far I've found a DVB card which is said to tune in the Bell
Expressvu channels (should work for the DiSH network for you Americans)
but since they're encrypted with Nagravision (what your smartcard
decrypts) we have to find a PC compatible way of either using the
smartcard or find a way to just decrypt everything ;) I'm going to be
looking into this this summer so if you'd like to help that'd be great.
It will however tune in all unencrypted channels, which I think is just
all of the radio channels.

- John

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Rocha
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:16 AM
To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: ATI 3D Rage II+ GTB (GFX) w/ AIW 7500
(Tuner)



Er, sorry, I was looking in the wrong place. After closely reading a
few threads on this list I was able to find out that the AIW is a POS in
it's current state. :)

Guess it's time to junk the AIW and buy a better card.. Anyone have any
success with DVB cards in North America on the Dish Network? (Bell
ExpressVu)?

- Jerry

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jerry Rocha wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> I couldn't find information on such a setup anywhere on here. I'm
> running X 4.3.0 and used 'XFree86 -configure' to setup the initial
> config file.
>
> I ended up with Card0 (3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB]), which is a
> PCI card. Card1 is an ATI Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] (All in
> Wonder). Obviously, I wish I had done more studying before purchasing
> the AIW ... But I'm stuck with it. ;) I'm using the GATOS project for
> support of the AIW and I've managed to get video capturing working
> using the ATI Viewer program supplied with that project.
>
> When I load up MythTV's setup program and go to 4. Inputs, it seg
> faults and complains about the /dev/video0 device not supporting a
> certain call. This was while I was using the Radeon as my GFX + Tuner
> card. Now I'm trying to get an older Rage II card working as my
> primary display... Without much luck.
>
> Does anyone have a working XF86Config I can use as an example?
> Particularily for an AIW in tuner-only mode. Should I not even bother
> loading the AIW into my X Config and only use it for video capture?
>
> Is this even possible? The AIW /can/ be used as a tuner, right? :)
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!
>
>

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