<div>I had this same problem. I called hauppage tech seupport they sent me a new PVR-500 and all is good.</div>
<div>If only one tuner works on a PVR 500 your card is bad.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Ok, i just thought of one thing that you could check.</div>
<div>in /etc/init/modutils</div>
<div>you should have a file called ivtv</div>
<div> </div>
<div># ivtv (PVR-500MCE)<br>alias char-major-81 videodev<br>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv<br>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv<br>alias char-major-81-2 ivtv<br>alias char-major-81-3 ivtv<br>alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv<br>alias tuner tuner-ivtv
<br>alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv<br><br>This is what mine looks like but I have a PVR-350, 250 and 500 in the same box. If you just have a 500 probably should look like this</div>
<div># ivtv (PVR-500MCE)<br>alias char-major-81 videodev<br>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv<br>alias char-major-81-1 ivtv<br>alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv<br>alias tuner tuner-ivtv<br>alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Then run update-modules to update your /etc/modules.conf file.</div>
<div>Then maybe run depmod -a. Reboot and cross your fingers.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>But it's probably a bad card. I spent a lot of time trying to update drivers and settings to fix mine. </div>
<div>Then I called tech support and told them that only one tuner worked and they immediately said my card was bad and gave me an rma.<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Bronosky</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@bronosky.com">mythtv@bronosky.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><font face="Arial">I tried:<br>cat /dev/video0 > ~/tmp/video0.mpg<br>[wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]<br></font>
<font face="Arial">cat /dev/video1 > ~/tmp/video1.mpg<br>[wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]<br><br>video0.mpg contained a viewable file that was 5.7meg<br>video1.mpg was 0 bytes<br></font>
<div><span class="e" id="q_10902856e156daef_1"><br><br>Kevin Kuphal wrote:
<blockquote cite="http://mid43D7A959.7040908@dls.net" type="cite"><pre>Richard Bronosky wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite"><pre>I don't own a windows box. Is there a method of testing it in Linux
that I have not done? (see my logs link in the "situation" page below.)
</pre></blockquote><pre>Not that I know of short of cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg to dump the
output of the card to a file. It is impossible to say without having
other evidence of the card functioning in another system whether you are
experiencing a hardware problem. It is not uncommon from the messages
I've read to have a PVR-500 with one tuner defective. I've also seen
reports where loading the Windows drivers/firmware on a Windows system
resets the card to a working state. I think this is usually indicative
of a firmware issue but either way, testing in another OS should give
you the confirmation of whether the card works at all.
Kevin
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