Thank you Andrew, your patch fixed it. I scanned all my analog channels (up to about 84) and each one seems to be fine.
Kirk Andrew Dodd wrote: > Quoting Kirk Bocek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>I just discovered that my new PVR-500 doesn't tune channel 7. I >>haven't tested every >>channel (surfing is *so* darned slow in mythtv) but many other channels *are* >>working: 2, 6, 8, 58, 63, 66 and more. The PVR-350 tunes channel 7 >>without problem. >>This is a US cable system (Astound.) >> >>What's the status of the 'missing channels' posts I saw in the past >>couple of weeks? >>My ivtv boot messages are below. > > ivtv 0.4.2 plus the patch which I posted at the end of last week SHOULD work > with the Samsung tuner. > > Note that with 2.6.15, while you don't normally have to override any of the > built-in kernel modules with any ivtv modules, you DO have to override three > kernel modules if you want to use the Samsung tuner in the PVR-500. There > should be a README somewhere in the 0.4.2 distribution that covers this. (You > need to make a small change to the driver Kbuild file, I forget what it is and > can't look it up until later this evening.) > > I have not had any missing channel problems since fixing the frequency offsets > in the 0.4.2 tuner driver (look back a few days for a post from me with > a patch > attached). Unfortunately, currently in most situations the first tuner > (not the > second) has very bad performance on us-cable channels 2 through 6. I have no > signal from my cable company on channels 95 through 98 (the remaining channels > which overlap the FM broadcast band) to see how much correlation there is > between radio tuner coverage and TV tuner performance. Given that only the > first tuner has the problem, the first tuner is the only one with FM support, > and the only channels I have problems with happen to overlap the FM band, I > suspect the FM tuner is somehow causing interference. I've tried putting a > hack into tuner.c that would force the FM tuner into standby, but that didn't > work, on the other hand I have no idea whether the FM tuner actually went into > standby. > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
