[mythtv-users] Forcing MythTV to ignore a tuner

Chris chris at siggynet.org
Tue Jan 10 06:21:23 UTC 2006


Hello,

In mythtv-setup remove the unwanted card ?

Chris



On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 19:25 -0500, Steve wrote:
> 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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