Make sure the tuner module that is being loaded is the one from the ivtv drivers and not the one that comes with the kernel.
--Nate On 5/10/05, Chris Rouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/10/05, Xiaotian Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have trouble to get PVR-500 to work. And I also have trouble to > > subscribe to ivtv-devel list. My confirmation email couldn't be sent > > out my gmail. > > > > Anyways, the story is that I compiled the 0.3.4f (latest) ivtv driver > > and can (almost) successfully load it by issuing a modprobe ivtv. But > > there's a compalining about "tuner type not set" in the log, though > > there was an earlier log entry saying "tuner type set to 57" or > > something. So I got really confused. > > > > Then when I try to use ptune-ui.pl and mplayer to see if the tuner and > > the encoder are working, I only got statics, no matter which tuner (0 > > or 1) I chose, or which channel I set. And at the same time, there > > are more "tuner type not set" entries in the log. > > > > However, I can get perfect picture from my DVD player using composit > > input on the PVR-500. > > I don't recall what I was getting in the logs, but I was getting the > same effect as you (with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and ivtv 3.4a from > atrpms). Googling around I found a suggestion to set up my > modprobe.conf as follows: > > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv > alias char-major-81-2 ivtv > alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv > alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv > options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 > options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 > alias tuner tuner-ivtv > > NB this is for a Dutch PAL card. > > This produced a picture and sound on both tuners. Unfortunately the > picture stuttered and had a lot of fringing, and I won't have time to > look at this again until the weekend, so I'm not sure if I had a bad > version of ivtv or if I need to do some more tweaking. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
