[mythtv-users] My analog tuners stopped working!

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 02:47:34 UTC 2007


On 9/11/07, Bill Omer <bill.omer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Bill Omer <bill.omer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Today I installed the latest svn.  Everything compiled find.  After I
> > configured the backend, I noticed both of my analog tuners were
> > displaying nothing but a very snowy kind of picture.  It's not the
> > black/white snow that you would expect when the catv has been
> > disconnected either.
> >
> > I cat'd my /dev/video and /dev/video1, saved the stream to a file and
> > mplayer also shows the same thing.   I did a dist-upgrade (ubuntu
> > 7.04), which installed the 2.6.20-16 kernel.  After a reboot, the
> > /dev/video0 (pvr-150) tuner started to work again.  But my /dev/video1
> > (pvr-250) is still not working.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas I could try?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
> >
>
>
> I rebooted and got the same results, but reversed!  Now /dev/video0 is
> snowy and video1 works fine.  Doesn't make any sense to me ...
>
> No one ever heard of this before?
>
> -Bill
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What does dmesg tell you about your cards?

dmesg|grep ivtv

Ry


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