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Hamie wrote:

>
> Hi all.
>
> I have a PVR-350 running on gentoo-amd64, Asus A8V mptherboard, 1GB
> memory & A radeon9600 video card wth 256MB on it. Up until the
> middle of the week I did have mythtv working fine. Great picture
> etc. Then it all went to shit...
>
>
> Thursday I put in a new HD (200GB SATA)...And moved my mythtv
> directory to it... And all of a sudden my picture went to nothing
> but static. Tonight I've been trying to get it back... But it's
> just not playing ball. I thought it might be the SATA drive
> interferring... Disconnet the new drive... Try again. Nothing.
> Thought it might be the aerial. try another one. No dice. Thought
> it might be the ivtv drivers for some reason. Try new ones. Same
> thing. Try older ones. Same thing. Try bleeding edge 0.3.3. Same
> thing.
>
> Play with ptune.pl a bit... Now where I am in the SE of the UK,
> BBC1 is on channel 26 out of crystal palace... That now shows
> nothing but static (Where it used to be 100%). But if I set the
> tuner to channel 27!!! using
>

I can answer my own question here...

When I had originally installed it (With quite a few problems) I'd
managed to find a web page (Which I can't find any longer sadly, it
was quite good) that detailed the setup & included in the config the
tda9887 module. Which my card appears to require (I still haven't
found an explanation why, but I'll keep looking).
I put that in my /etc/modules.conf file (Late at night) & it ran fine
for a month...

You can see what's going to happen here can't you... When I put my new
SATA drive in I decided to use LVM2... And I ran update-modules
because I needed dm_mod loaded (Late at night again... Maybe I should
drink more caffeine)... Then didn't look at the PVR for a couple of
days...

Finding out how to get it all to load correctly seems to be a bit of a
black art... I found another reference in the mythtv setup
troubleshooting... Same problem with a slightly different tuner type.
It needs tda9887... Once I'd done that, hey presto! Picture.

Anyway...

Hopefully someone else will benefit from my posting the solution. Oh.
Here's my /etc/modules.d/ivtv file just in case anyone else requires
it in the future.

*************************************
# cat /etc/modules.d/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0

# Insert a suitable tuner type here!
options tuner type=45
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
options saa7127 pal=1

add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner tda9887
#
**************************************

Hamish.

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