> I've having trouble getting ivtv to recognize and use the tuner on my
> card. This card works in Windows and is good. Here's the info.
>
> #Vitals
> Ubuntu 6.10
> ivtv 0.7.3, compiled from source
> Diamond PVR-550 (basically a Yuan PG600)
>
> #Modprobe.conf
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
>
> #Output from dmesg
> [17182050.600000] ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV
> ====================
> [17182050.600000] ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
> [17182050.600000] ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-11-generic SMP
> mod_unload 586 REGPARM gcc-4.1
> [17182050.600000] ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug
> info between
> [17182050.600000] ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines,
> along with
> [17182050.600000] ivtv: any module options, when mailing the
> ivtv-users mailinglist.
> [17182050.604000] ivtv0: Autodetected Yuan PG600, Diamond PVR-550 card
> (cx23416 based)
> [17182050.604000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 17
> (level, low) -> IRQ 193
> [17182050.840000] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver
> #0)
> [17182054.104000] cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382
> bytes)
> [17182054.848000] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> [17182055.064000] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> [17182055.064000] ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768
> buffers (4096KB total)
> [17182055.064000] ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800
> buffers (2048KB total)
> [17182055.064000] ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472
> buffers (2048KB total)
> [17182055.064000] ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x
> 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
> [17182055.216000] ivtv0: Initialized Yuan PG600, Diamond PVR-550, card #0
> [17182055.220000] ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV
> ====================
>
> It looks to me like ivtv is correctly ID'ing the card, finds the mpeg2
> encoder, but never initializes the tuner. There is no 'tuner' line in
> there like I'd expect.
That's odd. Can you check with 'lsmod' whether the tuner module is loaded?
And do you have a PAL or NTSC tuner?
Regards,
Hans
>
> I cannot get the card to have a signal or show a picture from the
> tuner card. Trying to change the input to the tuner makes no
> difference. I've tried upgrading to Ubuntu 7.04 for the in-kernel
> support of ivtv with no luck. Modprobe.conf changes also seem to make
> little difference.
>
> Any help you can give about how I might coerce ivtv into seeing the
> tuner would be most appreciated. After sitting at this particular
> roadblock for the last week, I'm just about ready to throw in the
> towel and load up Windows! Hopefully it won't come to that. =)
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help!
>
> -Keller
>
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