On 01/01/2005 02:09 PM, Gary Cote wrote:
Mike,
Thanks for the response. Sorry for the delay in my own response.
Holidays, ya know ;)
Right back at you.
As for methods of installing ivtv, I've been following JarodThe Linux 2.6.9 kernel has a bad definition for the LG TAPE tuner (type 47). Depending on the exact commands you issued to install ivtv, you may have updated the tuner module to the appropriate one. Unfortunately, it's not too easy to test.
Wilson's howto for FC3. So I used the ivtv packages at ATrpms.
Good.
Did you power off after installing 2.6.10 or was it a warm boot (i.e. reboot)? Sometimes the only way to properly reset the card is by powering it off for about 30 seconds or so.The easiest solution is to upgrade to Linux 2.6.10 (which contains a working definition for your tuner). If you can't do that, it's possible that you a) do not have the video4linux snapshot package that contains the updated tuner module, b) have the updated tuner module, but have a bad (old?) module-init-tools package which causes the old tuner module to load, or c) have a working tuner module and module-init-tools and have a configuration problem.
Upgrading to 2.6.10 should take care of
cases a) and b), giving us a much better starting place for diagnosing
the problem.
Ok ... I tried 2.6.10 with ivtv 0.2.0-rc3, but it yields the same results. You mentioned potential configuration problems. What are your thoughts in that regard?
(Oh, and to refresh your memory, "same results" means I can
only tune in channels five and six. All other channels are
snow.)
Are you certain you're using the right frequency table? Have you tried us-cable *and* us-cable-hrc?
Yes. You would plug the satellite system into the S-Video or Composite video input.It could help amplify the noise for you--just in case you're havingAgain, I'm in an apartment, so the best I could do is amplify the signal at the wall jack. Would that do me any good?
trouble seeing the noise. ;)
I tried an amp, but it didn't work either. I tried it at the wall jack, and also at the cable junction box in my closet. That seems to be the point where the cable enters the apartment and gets distributed to the rooms.
I gotta say, I'm suspecting some sort of signal problem. I just
don't know enough about video to even know where to begin
diagnosing that. I'd like to bring the box to a friend's place
to try a different cable feed, but everyone else I know uses
satellite. Correct me if I'm wrong, but satellite-based systems
use external tuners, no?
modprobe.conf:
# ivtv modules setup
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1
Good.
ivtv init dump:Everything looks good in there, too. Therefore, I would say it's probably a configuration problem. Since you have left configuration to auto-detection, that means it's almost definitely either a) a bad setting that carried over from using 2.6.9, or b) the wrong frequency table.
HTH.
Mike
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