<span class="postbody">I am attempting to run Knoppmyth R5C7 on an old machine which I know may struggle to support it. The computer is a Pentium 2 350 Mhz, 256 MB. and the tuner card is a Winfast 2000XP Expert. <br> <br> I have succesfully installed and run MythTV setup. I have followed Marcels' excellent instructions on installing the drivers <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" _="" href="http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10687&highlight=marcels" class="postlink">http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10687&highlight=marcels</a> <br> <br> When I select Watch TV I get a blank screen. <br> <br>When I look at the logs /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages both indicate that the drivers are correctly installed with tuner=38 for Australia. Last part of /var/log/messages is <br> <br> </span><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td
class="code">Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: TV tuner 38 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: tuner 1-0060: All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767 <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (cx88[0]) <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: tuner 1-0060: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: tda9887 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (cx88[0]) <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0x86 [tda9887/cx22702] <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xa0 [eeprom] <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]: i2c scan: found device @ 0xc0 [tuner (analog)] <br> Sep 16 15:38:38 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]: Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert config: tuner=38, eeprom[0]=0x01 <br> Sep 16 15:38:39 mythtv kernel: input: cx88 IR (Leadtek Winfast 2000XP as /class/input/input4 <br> Sep 16 15:38:39 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]/0:
found at 0000:00:0d.0, rev: 5, irq: 10, latency: 165, mmio: 0xd0000000 <br> Sep 16 15:38:39 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2] <br> Sep 16 15:38:39 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0 <br> Sep 16 15:38:39 mythtv kernel: cx88[0]/0: registered device radio0</td> </tr></tbody></table><span class="postbody"> <br> <br> The only errors I can find in the logs is in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log which gives <br> </span><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="90%"><tbody><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="code">mpeg4 @ 0xb705d620]removing common factors from framerate <br> strange error flushing buffer ... <br> 2006-09-16 17:59:45.213 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None <br> 2006-09-16 17:59:45.635 Finished recording Melbourne Weekender: channel 1003 <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:04.036 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:04.041 adding:
mythtv as a client (events: 0) <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:04.490 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:04.497 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1) <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:21.468 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:21.476 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0) <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:21.489 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:21.591 Channel::GetCurrentChannelNum(): Failed to find Channel '' <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:21.598 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(): Error, failed to find channel. <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:21.601 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 7. <br> strange error flushing buffer ... <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:43.789 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None <br> 2006-09-16 18:14:44.674 Finished recording Seven News: channel 1003</td> </tr></tbody></table><span class="postbody"> <br> <br> This seems to indicate that it can't set the tuner to channel 7, my selected default. <br> <br> Can anyone
shed any light on my problem?</span><p> 
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