I haven't heard anything back on this: maybe it's because I posted it on Sunday night, or maybe I was too wordy. In any case, I'm going to try again with a shorter version:
I think I'm doing everything right, and yet I still can't tune into most channels using my PVR 500 card on my amd64 gentoo system--everything is filled with static. Has anyone else seen this problem? Details below. Thanks! Mike On 7/17/06, Michael Gebis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a problem with my Hauppauge PVR 500 card: the tuner receives > most channels with a lot of static. On low channels, it's really bad: > the video is totally corrupt. I can sometimes make out an image, but > barely. However, I can usually make out the sound pretty clearly. > This is going to be a MythTV system, but I'm still working on just > getting /dev/video0 working for now. > > As I move to higher channels (like 50) the static gets less and less, > although it's still quite bad, I can at least make out the image. > > Both tuners behave essentially identically. > > This appears to just be a problem with the tuners: I switched to the > SVIDEO input, and the picture and sound were beautiful. This makes me > think I've got things MOSTLY right. (I switched inputs using > "ivtv-ctl -p 1" and back using "ivtv-ctl -p 0") > > I popped this card into a Windows box and installed Beyond TV, and the > tuners worked. (I know what you're thinking: bad cable. I was using > the same cable off the same connection, though.) > > I've tried ivtv-tune with: > ivtv-tune -t us-bcast -c 2 > ivtv-tune -t us-cable -c 2 > ivtv-tune -t us-cable-hrc -c 2 > ivtv-tune -t us-bcast-irc -c 2 > About ten percent of the time it responds with "(Signal Detected)". > (I even tried searching for the right frequency by hand, using the -f > flag, but no luck there, either) > > If you read this far, thanks. Hopefully someone just tells me to RTFM > (and points to the right page), but I've tried the typical > troubleshooting things with no luck. > > That's it for the problem description. Here's the gnarly details > about my system: > > fonz ~ # uname -a > Linux fonz 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 #8 Wed Jul 5 23:53:13 PDT 2006 x86_64 AMD > Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ GNU/Linux > > gcc version 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9) > > I'm using ivtv-0.6.3, downloaded and installed by hand. (This is > after trying the one from gentoo emerge, but they both work the same.) > > Here's the ivtv portion of dmesg: > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > ivtv: version 0.6.3 (tagged release) loading > ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 gcc-3.4 > ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between > ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with > ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:08.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, > low) -> IRQ 66 > wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tuner 2-0060: TEA5767 detected. > tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tuner 2-0060: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio) > tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes) > tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 23552, rev D487, serial# 9525679 > tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is Samsung TCPN 2121P30A (idx 87, type 70) > tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) > tveeprom 2-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx > 101, type 62) > tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) > tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) > tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has no IR remote > ivtv0: This is the first unit of a PVR500 > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) > ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB > total) > ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream > tuner 2-0061: type set to 70 (Samsung TCPN 2121P30A) > ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #0 > ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ====================== > ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:09.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, > low) -> IRQ 74 > wm8775 3-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > cx25840 3-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1) > cx25840 3-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes) > tveeprom 3-0050: Hauppauge model 23552, rev D487, serial# 9525679 > tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Samsung TCPN 2121P30A (idx 87, type 70) > tveeprom 3-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) > tveeprom 3-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx > 101, type 62) > tveeprom 3-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) > tveeprom 3-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) > tveeprom 3-0050: has radio, has no IR remote > ivtv1: This is the second unit of a PVR500 > ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit > ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) > ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) > ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) > ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) > ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB > total) > tuner 3-0061: type set to 70 (Samsung TCPN 2121P30A) > ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #1 > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > Any help is appreciated. 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