--- Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 17:06, Avery Fay wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just bought a couple Hauppauge PVR 150's for a > > mythtv box I'm trying to set up and I'm having > trouble > > getting them to work. Originally, the tuner type > > (model TCL M2523_5N_E) wasn't being detected > properly. > > By going through list archives, it looks like that > > problem was fixed by forcing it to tuner type 50. > > After doing this though, I'm only able to tune > into > > channels 5 and 6 via the command line as well as > in > > mythtv. Worse, the color on these channels is > almost > > completely grayscale, but if you look really close > at > > say something that should be big and red you can > see > > some color. Also, the video quality of channel 6 > is > > pretty bad although the audio for both channels > seems > > to be fine. Every other channel is static (when I > > switch the cable to my tv, I can receive around 70 > > channels perfectly... ntsc cable). > > > > I don't really know what other info to give. dmesg > > output is at the end of the mail. I'm running > Fedora > > Core 5 with the latest atrpms ivtv packages. > > ivtv-0.6 uses the tuner/tveeprom modules from the > kernel instead of > supplying its own versions of these modules. > Unfortunately, that does > mean that support for newer tuners is slower to > arrive than it used to > be. In this case your tuner is not yet autodetected > properly in 2.6.16. > This will be fixed when 2.6.17 arrives. > > In the meantime the easiest way is to load ivtv with > the module option > tuner=50. That will force the correct tuner. > > Regards, > > Hans > Yeah, I had done that already. Turns out the problem was somewhat unrelated. I didn't realize that comcast in my area was using cable-hrc frequencies instead of normal cable. Originally, I had tried scanning with mythtv on all 3 cable standards, so I'm a little perplexed on why it didn't work then, but it's working now. Avery __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
