[mythtv-users] Forcing MythTV to ignore a tuner

Steve stgarf at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 00:25:08 UTC 2006


I'd would also like to know if there's a way to make MythTV ignore a single
tuner. I have the exact same setup (1 250/1 500) but my 250 seems to have
given out a bit. It still plays TV it's just a bit fuzzier than it should
be.

On 1/9/06, Bill White <raygions at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have been running mythtv for about a year now.  First with a single
> PVR-250, then I added a PVR-500 this past June.  Everything worked very
> well, even when I upgraded to .18 in May until last week when I stopped
> getting reception on Tuner 2, which I believe is the first tuner on the
> PVR-500.
>
> While I do have questions about how to go about verifying that the tuner
> has gone bad, I do not have time to mess with it for a while.  What I want
> to know is how to force MythTV to ignore the existence of that first tuner
> on the PVR-500 while continuing to use the second one.
>
> thanks,
> bw
>
> my modprobe.conf file...
>
> alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> alias eth0 sk98lin
> alias eth1 forcedeth
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
> alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_nv
> # nvidia kernel module
> alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7667
> alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7667
> # ivtv modules setup
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
> alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
> #options ivtv tuner=-1,-1,-1
> options cx25840 no_black_magic=1
> alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
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