<div>i have a pvr-350 installed, and i can watch mythtv on my TV.</div>
<div>i am unable to watch LIVE-TV. i have no input.</div>
<div>i have connected the Cable TV to the card.</div>
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<div>how do i check if i have a signal ?</div>
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<div>i tried</div>
<div>cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg, but the .mpg file contains nothing.</div>
<div>tried video1, 2, 64</div>
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<div>i have a PAL card.</div>
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<div>the /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv file contains</div>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Courier New" color="#3333ff" size="2">alias char-major-81 videodev<br>alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c<br>#options ivtv debug=1<br>#options tuner type=2<br>options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New"><font color="#3333ff">install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; /sbin/modprobe lirc_i2c<br>remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner && /sbin/modprobe -r ivtv-fb && /sbin/modprobe -r lirc_i2c
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<div><font size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New" color="#000000">and the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file contains</font></font></font></div>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="2"><font face="Courier New"><font color="#3333ff">Section "ServerLayout"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"XFree86 Configured"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Screen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>0 "TV Screen"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>InputDevice
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>InputDevice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "ServerFlags"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"true"<br><br>EndSection<br><br>
Section "Files"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>RgbPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>ModulePath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
<br># Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"<br>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"<br>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
<br># True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/share/fonts/truetype"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>FontPath<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"<br>EndSection
<br><br>Section "Module"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"ddc"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span># ddc probing of monitor<br>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"GLcore"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"dbe"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"v4l"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"extmod"<br>#<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>
Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"glx"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"bitmap" # bitmap-fonts<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"speedo"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"type1"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"freetype"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Load<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"record"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Keyboard0"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Driver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"keyboard"
<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"CoreKeyboard"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option "XkbModel" "pc105"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option "XkbLayout" "us"<br><br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Serial Mouse"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Driver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
"mouse"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Protocol" "Microsoft"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"Device" "/dev/ttyS0"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Emulate3Buttons" "true"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Emulate3Timeout" "70"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"SendCoreEvents"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"true"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"PS/2 Mouse"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Driver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"mouse"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"Protocol" "auto"<br>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"ZAxisMapping"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"4 5"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Device" "/dev/psaux"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Emulate3Buttons" "true"
<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Emulate3Timeout" "70"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"SendCoreEvents"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"true"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "InputDevice"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"USB Mouse"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Driver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"mouse"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Device"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"/dev/input/mice"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </span>"SendCoreEvents"<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>"true"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"Protocol"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"IMPS/2"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"ZAxisMapping"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"4 5"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Buttons"
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"5"<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"PAL Monitor"
<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>HorizSync<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>30-68<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>VertRefresh 50-120<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
Mode "720x576"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span># D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>DotClock 41.476<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>HTimings 720 752 840 928<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>VTimings 576 580 584 600<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Flags<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"-HSync" "-VSync"
<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>EndMode<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Device"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Driver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"ivtvdev"<br><br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>### change fb1 to whatever number you got in the previous section
<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"fbdev" "/dev/fb0"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Option<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"ivtvdev" "/dev/fb0"<br><br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that <br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>#BusID "0:0x08:0"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>BusID "PCI:01:02:0"
<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Identifier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"TV Screen"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
Device<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Monitor <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"PAL Monitor"
<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>DefaultDepth 24<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>DefaultFbbpp 32<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Subsection "Display"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Depth 24<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>FbBpp 32<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Modes "720x576"<br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>EndSubsection
<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "DRI"<br><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>Mode 0666<br>EndSection</font><br> </font></font></p></div>
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