On 01/19/05 12:23, Charles Waddell wrote:

I used Jarod's instructions to install mythtv with apt-get. I do not seem to have either eeprom or tveeprom modules on the system. here is an lsmod, and all I get is static on all channels, I eliminated the physical connection as the problem as the card works under windows and the cable works on a standard tv:

Module                  Size  Used by
bttv                  148497  0

Do you actually have a BTTV card?

My guess: you have

# WinTV PVR-x50 support
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

when you want

# WinTV PVR-x50 support
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

in your modprobe.conf. Note that even if you do have a bttv card, it's critical that you load ivtv first. I.e.:

alias char-major-81 videodev
# WinTV PVR-x50 support
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
# BTTV support
alias char-major-81-1 bttv

And make sure ivtv is loaded first (by either positioning the BTTV card last and/or making sure you do an explicit "modprobe ivtv" before BTTV is initialized.

tveeprom 10776 0

You seem to have tveeprom, so it's probably a configuration issue inside your modprobe.conf.


...
here is the ivtv section of dmesg:

Actually, just a partial... As explained in Jarod's guide, you should get the ivtv initialization information with:


tac /var/log/messages |
sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p;
       /= START INIT IVTV =/q' |
tac

The reason is because many of the most important messages do not contain the string "ivtv", so "grep ivtv" doesn't work...

ivtv: i2c client addr: 0x50 not found!
ivtv: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom.
ivtv: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or
ivtv: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module.

This is usually caused by the above mentioned configuration problem...

tuner: type set to 39 (LG NTSC (newer TAPC series)) by insmod option
tuner: The type=<n> insmod option will go away soon.
tuner: Please use the tuner=<n> option provided by
tuner: tv aard core driver (bttv, saa7134, ...) instead.

Do *not* specify any module options with the new version of ivtv. Everything should be autodetected for you (there are only about two specific cases where you need to specify options--and they are for non-NTSC users). Therefore, make sure you modprobe.conf contains only:


# WinTV PVR-x50 support
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

And take out options for tuner, saa7127, saa7115, msp3400, tveeprom, videodev, and any other module used by ivtv for which you included an option.

people with a similar issue used options tuner type = 39 or options tuner type = 47 in their modprobe.conf file but neither of these was effective on my system, without any option stating the tuner type in modprobe.conf, I cannot even modprobe ivtv.

More likely similar symptoms but caused by different problems. Regardless, there is no reason to include any options on a properly configured (NTSC) system.


Mike


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