[mythtv-users] Noob Problem with M179

[Bob Weber]

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 07:50 pm, KeithRocheck at aol.com wrote:
> The
> one assigned to /dev/video0 increments the channels by one (so channel 5
> ends up being channel 6), but this does not occur for /dev/video1.
>
My problem was that the tuner simply didn't work. I would get a staticy 
version of channel 60, and couldn't change it. I had to specify the tuner 
in /etc/modprobe.conf. Here's a paste from that post.
> 
> The issue was that while ivtv correctly detected my video card as an m179, 
it wasn't able to detect the tuner. dmesg would show
> 
> tuner 0-0060: tuner type not set
> 
> For this card, the tuner type should be 2, it seems. I added the following 
> line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
> 
> options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=2
> 
> Now when I modprobe ivtv, the above dmesg line now shows that the tuner type 
> is 2. I can change channels, and the video looks fine (well, fine for an 
> M179).