The PVR-350 (ivtv) implementation is bleeding edge and has more of a place in Fedora Core, which oddly enough is where it works. If the client needs to use hardware that is not in the HCL ( https://hardware.redhat.com/hwcert/index.cgi is one site with such an ACL :) ) they need to understand that it has the potential to reduce the reliability of the system and support for such hardware is best effort.
I'd be more willing to setup a dedicated MytTV backend server for the PVR-350 using Fedora Core 5 (about as hard as adding a yum repo and typing 'yum install mythtv-suite' http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php). The front end could be installed on any CentOS box with out much trouble ('yum install mythtv-frontend'). Some of that can be adapted to CentOS.
Yes, you'll be maintaining two distributions, but the alternative is maintaining kernels and patches. That's up to you. -Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of Steve Huff Sent: Fri, 10/27/2006 10:10am To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 card on CentOS 4.X?
On Oct 27, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Bisbal, Prentice wrote:
you're a professional system admin, your job is to make things work. A few crashes here and there are better then employess who can't get the job done at all. If stability is the issue, using CentOS is much better
well, yes, unless the requirements of the job are such that "a few crashes here and there"(!!) are unacceptable. :)
does anyone know if the centosplus kernel supports this particular TV card? if not, you might want to request its inclusion; that might provide you with a somewhat less painful solution than maintaining your own custom kernel.
-steve
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