On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 20:13 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > On 1/23/06, Bill Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) When I choose "Watch TV", all I get is a black screen with the > > listing for the channel at the bottom. Could this be related to the > > fact that I haven't put a soundcard in my machine? > > No. This is most likely because your card is not set up correctly. If > you've got your antenna/cable in the RF-in port, you need to set your > tuner to tuner0. > > Make sure you have your channel listing connected to your input source > -- tuner0. > > You should always run mythfilldatabase after changing items in setup. > Don't delete your channel listings unless you intend to change them. > > If this fails, make sure your card is properly recognized by > #lspci -v > > I had a problem when rebuilding my system recently that my PVR 250 was > being recognized as either a 150 or a 350. If the card is improperly > recognized, this has been covered on the list.
The settings are set to Tuner 0, and I ran mythfilldatabase after running setup. lspci -v lists my card too, but I'm still getting a black screen when I click "Watch TV". > > 3) I have successfully gotten the screen to display on my television > > set, but the viewing area runs off the TV screen. I have tried messing > > with the xorg.conf file in order to make the whole screen viewable, but > > to no avail. Is there something I can do fix this? > > If you can go out the nvidia card through S-video to an RF modulator > for feeding the TV, I'd do it that way. The default 640x480 will do > fine, although you may find modelines that work better. There's an S-Video output on the pvr-350, too. Should I connect that to the RF modulator? _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users