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

John H. mistamaila at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 13 06:18:59 UTC 2005


ok, it needs to be 

options tuner type 

instead of

options tuner tuner



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

> 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
> >>    
> >>
> 
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