On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:06 -0800, Des Dougan wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:14 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 December 2005 23:47, Des Dougan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:31 +0100, dewag wrote:
> > > > did you already try the command:
> > > >
> > > > mplayer /dev/video0
> > > >
> > > > It should show the current channel of the television tuner.
> > > > Do not forget to use:
> > > >
> > > > ivtv-tune -cXX
> > > >
> > > > where XX is the wanted channel number.
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > >
> > > Peter,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply. I tried mplayer as suggested, with similar
> > > results. In checking further, I found that the msp3400, saa7115 and
> > > saa7127 modules are not being loaded.
> >
> > These modules are for the PVR250/350 and are not used by the PVR150.
>
> Ah, OK.
>
> > Looking at the log you posted earlier it looks like you might not be
> > using the correct tda9887 module. Look in /lib/modules if there are
> > other copies lying around and rename them so they aren't loaded. Only
> > the ivtv version should be used. You should see a message like:
> >
> > tda9887 0-0043: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> >
> > (note the 'ivtv' string).
>
> I've double-checked this, and the module loading is the one compiled
> from the ivtv tarball (0.4.1).
>
> Would recompiling be the next step you'd suggest?
Before recompiling, I decided to shut down arts, having found something
during my searches that indicated problems with a TV card. I also
disabled OSS emulation for ALSA in /etc/sysconfig. I then shut down my
PC for a couple of minutes and restarted it (note, I've done this
several times over the past couple of days with no success).
I started by doing the cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg test, and was stunned
to find sound working... I then incrementally re-enabled ARTS - still
got sound - and OSS emulation (mplayer /dev/video0 displayed only a
blank screen until I did this. I've subsequently looked at the man page
and it looks like there is an option to force ALSA use). I still have
sound working and am currently watching OK.
There are still some issues - tvtime shows "no signal" and doesn't give
me a menu option to check it's set for NTSC and US Cable - it also seems
to hang the card, as running cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg results in a 0
length file. kdetv also locks up when started.
Are these applications sensitive to the signal received? Do I need to do
anything special to get them working, or should I just go with MythTV
(which I haven't installed yet).
My next (and hopefully, final) test is to do a cold boot again to
determine if any of the changes I've made cause impacts on restart. I'll
report on this later.
Thanks for all the help.
Des
--
Des Dougan, Principal
Dougan Consulting Group
Ph: 604-980-2848 Email: des at DouganConsulting dot com
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