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

Scott Minneman sminneman at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 06:14:14 UTC 2005


Hmm, looks like 2.6.11 might have changed that.  My modprobe.conf line 
looks like

options bttv card=10,10 tuner=9,9

Maybe try changing tuner to bttv in yours?

I'm running out of ideas here, anyone else know anything?



John H. wrote:

>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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