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.
> 
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