What would the line in modprobe.conf look like for ivtv and cx8800?<br><br>TK<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">R. G. Newbury</b> <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thomas Kessler wrote:<br>> On 4/22/07, R. G. Newbury <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">
newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> The post 12618 problem only affects scanning on the ATSC side of things.<br>>> Your post was unclear: do you have TWO different zap2it channel lineups?
<br>>><br>>> When you switch modes it is as if you swapped cards completely. So you<br>>> need a lineup distinct to NTSC channels. Your error message about wrong<br>>> modulation implies to me that you are trying to tune an NTSC channel,
<br>>> using an ATSC-channel tuning method (because myth thinks it is dealing<br>>> with an ATSC channel). That fails, of course.<br>>><br>>> If you HAVE defined 2 lineups, it sounds like your NTSC channel listing
<br>>> has the same modulation value as the ATSC....<br>>><br>>> For NTSC tuning, your card would not (properly) use the dtv_multiplex<br>>> table... which is the one place where modulation appears. (It should be
<br>>> qam_256 for digital cable: in mysql:<br>>><br>>> select modulation from dtv_multiplex;<br>>><br>>> Geoff<br>><br>><br>> I was in mythtv-setup and I noticed that both my HD-5500 NTSC and PVR-350
<br>> were being assigned to /dev/video0. I know I can add something to<br>> /etc/modprobe.d/aliases to assign hardware to a specific devices. Does<br>> anyone know what I might put to fix this? Also when I originally went to
<br>> get<br>> NTSC working I only had an analog listing in my zap2it account and I only<br>> setup my HD-5500 card with one input going to the NTSC connection and<br>> nothing to the ATSC side of the card in setup.
<br>><br>> TK<br><br>Since the cx88 modules are loaded by the kernel very early in the boot<br>process, I have recommendeded that people blacklist all the cx88..<br>modules, so that they will not unexpectedly be loaded. (The kernel will
<br>then recognize that the card is there, but not load the module).<br>We control the load by adding a single line to rc.local: 'modprobe<br>cx88_dvb'. Once installed, this will (should!) result in udev creating<br>
the /dev/dvb tree for the ATSC side of the card..<br><br>Then your usual modprobe.conf need only contain the ivtv line for your<br>PVR. It will end up at /dev/video0..<br><br>Finally another line in modprobe.conf can load cx8800 for the NTSC side
<br>of the HD5500. It will then be assigned to /dev/video1.<br><br>This process means that the PVR card never changes its assigned<br>position. The /dev/video1 and /dev/dvb/adaptor0 adapters will appear and<br>disappear as the controlling module is swapped.
<br><br>And you will have to start with another lineup at <a href="http://labs.zap2it.com">labs.zap2it.com</a>.<br><br><br><br> R. Geoffrey Newbury<br><br><br> Helping with the HTTP issue<br><a href="
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