Linux/MythTV and ATI HDTV Wonder card

[Matthew Carpenter]

Hey all,

I just banged my head against a wall for weeks of intermittent "fun" trying to 
figure out how to actually use my ATI HDTV Wonder card with Linux and MythTV.

Basically, this is very good information here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ATI_HDTV_Wonder

but the most important thing I was missing was downloading and installing the 
Firmware into /lib/firmware!  I had missed that in other resources I was 
using.  Without this firmware, I was unable to successfully find any channels 
while scanning hi-def channels, giving me the impression that the card was 
broken... in a way, it was... by my doing.  Now I just need to move my 
antenna and get better reception (I didn't get all the local stations I was 
hoping for), and figure out more details about which scanning method works 
with what medium...  there's also a jitter I'm seeing that I seem to remember 
reading about before.  Just need to find it.  I'm not there yet, but this is 
showing some promise now.

Anyway, since this list gets well-googled, I wanted to share this information 
in a place others might find it.


-- 
Matthew Carpenter
mcarpenter at intelguardians.com
http://www.intelguardians.com

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