[mythtv-users] Adding PVR-250 to already existing PVR-350 system

jose rubio debian at nc.rr.com
Sun Feb 15 11:24:26 EST 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 12:50, Michael Starks wrote:
> I've searched the archives and FAQ and am not quite clear on this..
> 
> I added a PVR-250 to my system. Initially, X bitched about not being 
> able to find /dev/fb0 but switching slots fixed that.  I ran mythtvsetup 
> to add the second card but am a bit unclear as to what the settings for 
> the addition card should be.  Right now it is set for the hardware MPEG 
> decoder, video1 (not quite sure if this is right--the 350 is video0) and 
> tuner0.  Thinking logically it seemed that there should be a tuner1 
> option since this is an additional tuner but there is not, so I bound it 
> to tuner0.  I have a cabletv video source bound to both video0 and video1.
> 
> I tried going into LiveTV and pressing 'C' but it doesn't change 
> anything and simply puts up 'tuner 0' on the screen.  Looking at 
> another's module.conf with a similar setup, I added 'alias 
> char-major-81-1 ivtv' Here is the full modules.conf.
> 
[snip]

There's nothing wrong here.  "C" changes inputs but you only have tuner
as input.  It does not change cards.  You are done.  try recording two
shows at once! or PIP...

-jose-



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