Jason Gabriele wrote: >I also could get the Fusion 5 Gold working as a QAM tuner but had trouble >with analog tuning. You should be able to set it up just like any other v4l >card. I was able to get mine to work but the picture appears washed out >(looks fine with QAM) and also the sound doesn't come in until you change >the channel. There are some serious problems with the cx88 drivers even in >the latest kernel (I also am using 2.6.15), so I don't think we are the only >ones. BTW, it looks as though you have the correct drivers loaded. You may >want to make sure it's detecting the correct card using dmesg and try using >tvtime to tune some channels. > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>I've got the subject card working as an HD (ATSC) receiver, but can't >>figure out how to get it to receiver NTSC channels. I defined a V4L >>capture card in the 'Capture cards' section of mythtv-setup. It then >>shows up as a device of /dev/v4l/video0. But when I go to scan those >>channels, nothing shows up. And I know that there's several VHF and UHF >>channels on standard NTSC broadcast. I also tried setting the 'TV >>format: in the Global Backend setup to NTSC (even though that didn't >>make a lot of sense, and logically wouldn't be the right thing to do for >>the ATSC 'part' of the card).... >> >>Has anyone gotten this to work? >> >>On a 'plus' note, I did manage (I think) to get both this card and a >>HD5000 card to both work at the same time (both in ATSC mode). I'm >>running gentoo and had to emerge the 2.6.15-gentoo kernel. But after >>configuration, both cards worked... >> >>Its possible that I didn't follow the Fusion Gold instructions correctly >>and don't have the correct module compiled to actually pick up NTSC... >>Which device driver would that be? Here's my lsmod output: >> >>Module Size Used by >>cx88_dvb 10756 0 >>cx8802 11780 1 cx88_dvb >>or51132 11012 1 cx88_dvb >>video_buf_dvb 7044 1 cx88_dvb >>nxt200x 14660 1 cx88_dvb >>cx22702 7876 1 cx88_dvb >>cx8800 30412 0 >>cx88xx 60064 3 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx8800 >>i2c_algo_bit 10184 1 cx88xx >>video_buf 20228 5 >>cx88_dvb,cx8802,video_buf_dvb,cx8800,cx88 >> >>
Going from memory, the cx8800 module is the NTSC module while the cx88-dvb is the ATSC module. To get NTSC working properly, you will have to rmmod cx88_dvb, then modprobe cx8800. These cards can do both modes, but not at the same time. I had my HD3000 card doing NTSC as a test at one point. Geoff _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
