On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 14:50 +0100, Robert Copelan wrote: > Brad, > Try tuning to channnel 10 and see if you get channel 18. My PVR250, > purchased 2 weeks ago, has a TYPE 50 tuner. That one seems to not yet be > fully supported. Also, I have found that by plugging in frequencies > directly it will receive correctly. (ptune.pl --frequency xxxxxx) It seems > that the frequencies are all non-standard though. This is probably due to > some differently calculated parameters for this new tuner. > > Tonight, I'll send you a script to find working freqs and a couple of the > ones I found on my system. > > There was a posting last week about a patch to tune.c (kernel program) > that might help. > > > Robert > > > > > I am running the coax out from a digital cable box into the tuner of a > > PVR 250 and I can't get it tuned in at all. I have been running > > `/usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl & mplayer /dev/video0` and trying all > > different combinations. Things definitely change and range anywhere > > from a black screen to a screen with wavy colors, to regular old snow. > > The tuner > > shows up as a type 2 and I added that option to modprobe.conf: > > > > # ivtv modules setup > > alias char-major-81 videodev > > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > > options tuner type=2 > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Brad > >
Robert, Ok, I will definitely try that tonight and see what happens. I know I have tried 3 and 4 thinking the signal should be one of the two, and have tried many other channels, but I don't recall trying 10. I appreciate the script and will check out that patch to tune.c. Thanks, Brad
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