[mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

Peter Darley darley at darleyconsulting.com
Fri Oct 21 13:02:44 EDT 2005


Danesh,

     Thanks for responding to this!

     Forgive my ignorance, but it looks like you're saying that if I  
recomplie ivtv, I won't need to recompile the kernel?  Or is this a  
way to get ivtv compiled into the kernel correctly?  I've never  
compiled a kernel, so I'm hoping that I won't have to... :)

Thanks again,
Peter Darley
On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Danesh wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I had the same problem and fixing it took
> - downloading the patch from the following thread,
> - applying it to ivtv source, and
> - recompiling ivtv and then rebooting.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24322? 
> search_string=second%20pvr-500;#24322
>
> Ofcourse, remember to do the above everytime you recompile your  
> kernel.
>
> Regards,
> `Danesh
>
> On 10/21/05, Peter Darley <darley at darleyconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>>      I guess I'll reply to my own message...
>>
>>      On the ivtv-devel list I find:
>>
>>> With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my
>>> problem turned
>>> out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux
>>> kernel itself
>>> rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was
>>> doing the
>>> same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get
>>> both tuners
>>> working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/
>>> video?
>>> trick.
>>>
>>
>>      Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm
>> wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent
>> the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the
>> correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile
>> the kernel to do this?
>>
>>      My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version
>> 2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 (bhcompile at porky.build.redhat.com) (gcc version
>> 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers!
>> Peter Darley
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Larry,
>>>     Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't
>>> appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
>>>     I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can
>>> you let this list know?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
>>> bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Larry K
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
>>> To: Discussion about mythtv
>>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works
>>>
>>> I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv-
>>> devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.
>>>
>>> On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <darley at darleyconsulting.com > wrote:  
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>>         I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I
>>> can use video1,
>>> but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that
>>> it's not
>>> actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1
>>> which I don't
>>> get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an
>>> antenna or
>>> cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's  
>>> not
>>> changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.
>>>
>>>         When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
>>> # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
>>> /dev/video0: 439.250 MHz
>>>
>>> # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
>>> /dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)
>>>
>>>         Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0
>>> didn't succeed,
>>> while the change on video1 did.
>>>
>>>         I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had
>>> similar problems
>>> and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just
>>> broken.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter Darley
>>>
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