[mythtv-users] Tuner for WinTV-Go Card?

[Scott Minneman]

On 8/17/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/05, Scott Minneman <sminneman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all, I'm (re)building my combined backend/frontend, which uses two
> > WinTV-Go cards.  I cannot for the life of me get the tuners to
> > function properly.  They do not autodetect (in FC3), so I have to use
> > modprobe.conf to set the card and tuner options.
> >
> > On the tuners themselves is printed NTSC 44981 Rev E199.  In dmesg,
> > tveeprom reports "tuner=<unknown>".  Google searches have turned up
> > nothing useful, and the ftvco script (find_tvcardoptions.sh) also
> > failed to discover a working configuration.
> >
> > The most frustrating thing about it is that these same tuners have
> > worked for me before, until the system crashed.  Unfortunately, I was
> > backup-less (will never make that mistake again), so I can't go back
> > and look at the settings that worked then.
> >
> > Is anyone using this card, or have any suggestions for how to figure
> > out the proper settings?
> 
> >From reading I think the tuner type should be set to 2 for NTSC if
> using the cx88 driver. Which chips do the cards use?
> 
> Nick


lspci reports "Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture", so I've
been using the bttv driver.

-Scott