The PVR card came in and it's installed in the linux server. It shows up as a PCI card now - lspci output looks like:

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

I've been doing infrastructure setup. I've upgraded my system to RedHat 9. Today I tried the latest 2.5.75 kernel, but I couldn't get my existing infrastructure to work (apache failed to start correctly). Since I couldn't get apache happy, it seemed reasonable to try the latest stable 2.4 kernel. I've just got the 2.4.21 kernel built, installed and it's working just fine. I installed the ALSA drivers for my sound card.

I'm using a soundblaster 512 soundcard. This translates into the emu10k1 alsa driver. The ALSA web site has lots of good directions on how to setup the correct drivers. I got the driver (and the oss emulation layer) built and installed along with the libraries and utilities. The collection of alsa modules installed and running was suprising long (about twenty four modules).

The directions tell you that the various outputs are all muted when the alsa modules are started. The alsamixer gives you the ability to unmute each output. I kept trying until I got some sound - turned out that I needed to unmute the master and the pcm outputs. I'm sure there are other settings that I need to poke around with until sound works great for everything.

I've also built in video for linux support. It doesn't have the PVR card that I'm using... but the IVTV drivers support the 350 for recording... more on that sometime later. I've also built in all of the possible radio cards - I'm hoping one of the radio modules works (the 350 has a radio chip, but it seems that most folks using Linux don't know how to control it yet). There is a program (wmtuner) which works with a different WinTV on NetBSD. More on the radio support later...

Sound output is working... next I'll be working on video output. The video card I'm using is an old ATI Rage 128 RF/SG which happens to have s-video and composite video output.
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