[mythtv-users] Re: pvr-250MCE, debian and kernel 2.6 woes...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/25/2004 04:24 PM, John Andersen wrote:

>On Saturday 25 September 2004 08:44, Christopher Flynn wrote:
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>>To quote Homer Simposon: Woohoo!
>>
>>Well I had some issues initially with the patch but I went in and
>>patched the 2 kernel file by hand and recompiled and now I have TV!
>>Thank you so much Michael for your assistance.
>>
>>Now the only problem is that the video is a little jumpy but I have a
>>feeling that is a settings issue.
>>-Chris
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>And as others (should) have mentioned, you NEED NOT do this
>at all if you are only interested in channels less than X, where X
>is 62 in NTSC.
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Actually, that would be 62 for Cable and 14 for OTA, and only applies to 
NTSC (since the tuner is NTSC only).

>Just force tuner=39 in the modprobe.
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And it will be close, but not exact.  You will probably still have 
problems with cable channels 20 and/or 21 (and there's a very small 
possibility that 22 will also cause problems).

So, it's always better to patch the module (or use a patched module from 
a package) if you can.

Mike