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Most folks buy their TV's at places like Sears or Best Buy, and there's a lot to be said for plunking your credit card down and driving home with a functional television set. But that's not my style. I've been using a Commodore 64 color monitor hooked up to a VCR since the late 80's and it's worked great. On the other hand, VCR's are going the way of the dodo and a 13" television with weak mono sound isn't much fun so I should probably upgrade.

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2005-12-19 - moved the tuner card and 200GB disk from phoenix to sandcastle, and am in the process of getting everything working again. I didn't take good enough notes last time so I'm having to re-figure-out more than I'd like. So far it's been pretty easy - I needed to enable recording on the line input using amixer sset Line,0 mute cap.

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2006-02-05 - sandcastle was a disappointment - I couldn't get it to run reliably. So I moved the 200G drive back to noisy old phoenix and bought a PVR-500 card on ebay. Setting it up was non-trivial, but here's what seemed to work, based on instructions on http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Debian:

upgrade debian to 2.6.15, which didn't work off the bat. I had to make an initd that didn't use lvm. I used the yaird tool, e.g. $ mkinitrd.yaird -o /tmp/initrd 2.6.15-1-686-smp. This boots OK.
Now that I'm on 2.6.15 the module-assistant prepare command works.
$ sudo module-assistant auto-install ivtv0.4
download pvr_2.0.24.23035.zip from the link on http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware, unzip and copy the files to the hotplug directory.

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