[mythtv-users] .17 on fc3-only stays on one channel, despite changing!

John H. mistamaila at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 13 06:06:22 UTC 2005


ah, dmesg says
"unknown parameter: tuner"

Apparently this, in my modprobe.conf, is not ok
anymore

options tuner tuner=8 debug=0


--- Scott Minneman <sminneman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try running the utility I linked to in my last
> response.  It runs 
> through the entire available tuner list, one at a
> time, so you can check 
> if each one works.  It requires xawtv, so emerge
> that if you haven't 
> already.
> 
> Speaking of xawtv, what happens when you run that? 
> Can you change 
> channels?  (If you can, and xawtv works correctly,
> then the problem is 
> not your bttv driver, it's Myth)
> 
> 
> John H. wrote:
> 
> >Here is what dmesg says
> >
> > dmesg |grep bttv
> >bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
> >bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each
> for
> >capture
> >bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> >bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0a.0, irq: 11,
> >latency: 32, mmio: 0xe7004000
> >bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [bswap] [card=39],
> PCI
> >subsystem ID is bd11:1200
> >bttv0: using: Pinnacle PCTV Studio Pro
> [card=52,insmod
> >option]
> >bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ff4fdf
> >[init]
> >bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> >bttv0: miro: id=19 tuner=17 radio=fmtuner
> stereo=yes
> >bttv0: using tuner=17
> >bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> >bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not
> found
> >bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not
> found
> >bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not
> found
> >bttv0: registered device video0
> >bttv0: registered device vbi0
> >bttv0: registered device radio0
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--- Scott Minneman <sminneman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I had the same problem for a while.  Turned out
> the
> >>bttv driver wasn't 
> >>detecting my 2 WinTV Go card's tuners correctly.
> >>
> >>I figured this out by running dmesg.  Scroll up
> >>until you see lines 
> >>similar to the following:
> >>
> >>bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=29440, tuner=?
> (-1),
> >>radio=no
> >>bttv0: using tuner=9
> >>
> >>Note that on the first line, it's failing to
> detect
> >>a tuner properly.  
> >>To fix this, in the file
> >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 (I run 
> >>Gentoo on a 2.6 kernel, your distro/kernel might
> be
> >>different), I added 
> >>the line
> >>
> >>bttv tuner=9,9
> >>
> >>This loads the bttv driver at startup, and tells
> it
> >>that both cards use 
> >>tuner 9.
> >>
> >>To figure out what tuner you have, you can go to 
> >>http://www.mind.lu/~Eyg/ftvco/ and download the
> >>utility.
> >>
> >>Hope this helps.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>John H. wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>This just started a few days ago, but for some
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>reason,
> >>    
> >>
> >>>mythtv will only show channel 52 on livetv or
> >>>recordings, despite changing the channel(the
> number
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>at
> >>    
> >>
> >>>the top saying it's channel 47 or 58 or whatever,
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>and
> >>    
> >>
> >>>menu at the bottom  saying the different channel
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>name
> >>    
> >>
> >>>and show).
> >>>
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