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 at 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 -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos