[mythtv-users] hauppauge wintv pvr250 tuner setup help anybody

[Rudy Zijlstra]

maestro wrote:

>hi all,
>i've read about mythtv on the internet and it really looks great. 
>i built myself a system based on a via epia m10k, with a wintv pvr250. 
>os is Debian/Gnu Linux 3.1 Sarge (from a netinst cd) i got the debian
>packages for mythtv from
>http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/
>and the ivtv driver.
>ivtv compiling and installation went fine (after i figured out that bttv
>support must be enabled in the kernel to get the tuner.o module [is that
>mentioned in the docs? i dont think so]) and i can record from s-video
>and composit jacks via 
>dd if=/dev/video0 of=/tmp/rec.mpg bs=64k count=100,
>i live in austria (pal country) and have a terrestrial antenna, the
>tuner tpye (as reported by modprobe tveeprom sais 29 (LG tuner)) i set
>that value to /etc/modules.conf and reloaded the module. 
>i tried all input channels [0-8] via test_ioctl [test_ioctl -d
>/dev/video0 -u 0xff -p 8 -f width=720,height=576] but i'm not able to
>get a tv signal, some channels deliver noise and some only black
>screens.
>i digged through the mailing-list archives and tried a lot of things i
>read there the last 3 nights (and they were long ones :-() but nothing
>helped.
>
>can anyone give me another hint what i could try to get this to work?
>
>if theres any information missing please let me know, i'd gladly provide
>anything that might be usefull.
>
>so long
>maestro
>
>p.s. sorry for the bad english it's not my mother's tounge
>
>  
>
Some questions:
- which version of MythTv
- which version of ivtv
- what HW (your system)
- what is the output of dmesg
- are you sure the tuner is configured correctly
- have you checked the ivtv wiki and howto's 
(http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php)
- have you checked the ivtv mailinglist (http:/ivtv.sourceforge.net)

Rudy