I had this same problem. I called hauppage tech seupport they sent me a new PVR-500 and all is good.
If only one tuner works on a PVR 500 your card is bad.
Ok, i just thought of one thing that you could check.
in /etc/init/modutils
you should have a file called ivtv
# ivtv (PVR-500MCE)
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
alias char-major-81-3 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias tuner tuner-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
This is what mine looks like but I have a PVR-350, 250 and 500 in the same box. If you just have a 500 probably should look like this
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
alias char-major-81-3 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias tuner tuner-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
This is what mine looks like but I have a PVR-350, 250 and 500 in the same box. If you just have a 500 probably should look like this
# ivtv (PVR-500MCE)
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias tuner tuner-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
alias tuner tuner-ivtv
alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv
Then run update-modules to update your /etc/modules.conf file.
Then maybe run depmod -a. Reboot and cross your fingers.
But it's probably a bad card. I spent a lot of time trying to update drivers and settings to fix mine.
Then I called tech support and told them that only one tuner worked and they immediately said my card was bad and gave me an rma.
On 1/25/06, Richard Bronosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I tried:
cat /dev/video0 > ~/tmp/video0.mpg
[wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]
cat /dev/video1 > ~/tmp/video1.mpg
[wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]
video0.mpg contained a viewable file that was 5.7meg
video1.mpg was 0 bytes
Kevin Kuphal wrote:Richard Bronosky wrote:I don't own a windows box. Is there a method of testing it in Linux that I have not done? (see my logs link in the "situation" page below.)Not that I know of short of cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg to dump the output of the card to a file. It is impossible to say without having other evidence of the card functioning in another system whether you are experiencing a hardware problem. It is not uncommon from the messages I've read to have a PVR-500 with one tuner defective. I've also seen reports where loading the Windows drivers/firmware on a Windows system resets the card to a working state. I think this is usually indicative of a firmware issue but either way, testing in another OS should give you the confirmation of whether the card works at all.Kevin _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users-- Thank you for your time, --==<< R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y >>==-- Before posting to a mailing list I check the following locations: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/ http://ivtvdriver.org/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/ http://knoppmythwiki.org/ I may have missed the answer there, in which case, please point out the article to me, but don't say "check forum X." Nearly all viruses and spyware are designed to use Microsoft internet products. Protect yourself by avoiding Internet Explorer & Outlook/Outlook Express.
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