[mythtv-users] Re: Myth Setting Frequency of PVR-250 Wrongly... What's Going On?

[Jonathan Watmough]

On 5/25/05, Geoff Scott <geoff.scott.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/23/05, Geoff Scott <geoff.scott.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> ><snip>
> > I looked everywhere I could think of that might have that 884
> > frequency. I scanned all through the database, but nothing popped out
> > to me. I don't know how/why MythTV is setting the tuner card
> > parameters.



Did you look at the 'settings' table. Fire up mysql-query-browser and look 
for a table (can't remember exact name) with 'settings' in the name.

There's a bunch of stuff buried in there.

Jonathan

>
> > I'm at a loss here as to what I need to do next. I've looked through
> > dmesg and all seems to be fine, I can post that if someone wants a
> > peak.
> >
> > Frustrating, as this is the last "bug" on the box.
> >
> > ... and for those of you that know the show, yes, the "What's Going
> > On?" in the title is a Xandir reference from "Drawn Together".
> >
> > gs
> >
> 
> Replying to myself...
> 
> I've done some more work on this, and it seems to me it's a MythTV
> issue. I can't, for the life of me, get the Frequency to be anything
> other than 884 (ivtvctl -a, look at "Frequency="). I finally did get
> the /etc/rc.d/rc.local to set the frequency to 980 at boot, but as
> soon as mythfrontend loads, it gets changed to 884.
> 
> I've tried changing all the settings I can think of, US-bcst,
> US-cable, start on channel 2, start on channel 3, external tuner
> channel 3, external tuner channel 4... and on and on...
> 
> No matter what I do (and yes, each time I run mythtv-setup I restart
> the backend), I can not get Myth to use anything other than 884. I'm
> starting to go a little mad.
> 
> Card is PVR-250, Tuner type 8. I've also tried stable and testing
> ATRPMs for MythTV. Same behaviour for both.
> 
> Desperately seeking some suggestions...
> 
> gs
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