On Sunday 11 June 2006 23:22, Christopher Boorman wrote:
> OK. I've worked on this some more. If I boot into windows and use my
> tv card for a bit, then boot into Mandriva, my card is detected and I
> can successfully get sound and picture with
>
> cat /dev/video0 > /home/chris/Desktop/test.mpg
>
> I can even change channels and repeat the capture. However, if I run
> scantv, everything still shows up as "no station" THEN, nothing works
> at all. Can't do the capture test, nothing.
>
> I've used the ivtvctl command to specify /dev/video0, but that causes
> me to lose the cat test as well.
>
> Any suggestions?

What's the INIT IVTV output in the kernel log? I can't do much without 
it.

Did you select the correct TV norm and frequency table for scantv? You 
may want to do a full frequency scan. At least for my cable 
that 'europe-west' table misses quite a few channels.

        Hans

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