[mythtv-users] Static on all channels -- PVR-350

[Marc Barrett]

I am having a hard time getting my MythTV setup to work.  I have been working with this thing for some time, and I can't get anything but static on all the channels.  I have verfied that everything works hardware-wise by testing the hardware under Windows.  I also made a temporary KnoppMyth installation, which worked beautifully. (Temporary, because I want a general Linux installation that I can use for MythTV and other things, not an installation specific to MythTV)

My box uses Gentoo linux using version 2.6.17-r4 of the kernel, and version 0.7.0 of the IVTV drivers.  I subscribe to Cox Cable in Omaha, with extended basic cable service (71 channels).

I saved the entire /etc directory from the KnoppMyth installation.  Can I copy over some of the MythTV settings files from that directory to my Gentoo MythTV setup?  I admit I don't know which files to copy where.

I don't totally understand the various frequency table options in the mythtv-setup utility.  There is us-cable, us-cable-irc, and us-cable-hrc.  I don't know the difference between the three, but I tried them all and they don't work.  I do know that I used us-cable-hrc under KnoppMyth, and it worked, and also had to use us-cable-hrc to get a Windows application to work. 

I get the static when I have the video output displaying on the monitor, and also when I have MythTV output to a TV.  

-Marc


Here is my dmesg file:

ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 SMP mod_unload PENTIUM4 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card (cx23415 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
input: i2c IR (Hauppauge) as /class/input/input3
ir-kbd-i2c: i2c IR (Hauppauge) detected at i2c-1/1-0018/ir0 [ivtv i2c driver #0]
msp3400 1-0040: MSP4448G-B3 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
msp3400 1-0040: MSP4448G-B3 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tda9887 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
saa7127 1-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 48132, rev K268, serial# 8611750
tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx 68, type 47)
tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is MSP4448 (idx 27)
tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
tveeprom 1-0050: has radio, has IR remote
ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115
ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 24 x 43200 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
tuner 1-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series))
ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, card #0
ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================