Hey, I had the same problem and fixing it took - downloading the patch from the following thread, - applying it to ivtv source, and - recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322?search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322 Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your kernel. Regards, `Danesh On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I guess I'll reply to my own message... > > On the ivtv-devel list I find: > > With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my > > problem turned > > out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux > > kernel itself > > rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9. Looks likely I was > > doing the > > same with tveeprom as well. Once I switched, I was able to get > > both tuners > > working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/ > > video? > > trick. > > Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well. So, I'm > wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent > the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the > correct modules from ivtv to load instead. Will I have to re-compile > the kernel to do this? > > My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version > 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version > 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005" > > Thanks for any pointers! > Peter Darley > > On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote: > > > Larry, > > Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't > > appear to be broken. BeyondTV can use both tuners. > > I'll check out the ivtv list. If you make any progress, can > > you let this list know? > > Thanks, > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry K > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM > > To: Discussion about mythtv > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works > > > > I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv- > > devel archive. No solution yet. I've tried just about everything. > > > > On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Folks, > > > > I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem. I > > can use video1, > > but I get only static on video0. It seems like the problem is that > > it's not > > actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1 > > which I don't > > get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an > > antenna or > > cable hooked up. It's possible that the problem is not that it's not > > changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out. > > > > When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get: > > # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60 > > /dev/video0: 439.250 MHz > > > > # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60 > > /dev/video1: 439.250 MHz (Signal Detected) > > > > Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0 > > didn't succeed, > > while the change on video1 did. > > > > I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had > > similar problems > > and can give me a pointer. I'm also not rulling out that it's just > > broken. > > > > Thanks, > > Peter Darley > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
