[mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works

[Peter Darley]

Folks,

     I guess I'll reply to my own message...

     On the ivtv-devel list I find:
> With Hans Verkuil's help, which was VERY much appreciated, my  
> problem turned
> out to be that I was using the tuner that came with the linux  
> kernel itself
> rather than the one that came with ivtv-0.3.9.  Looks likely I was  
> doing the
> same with tveeprom as well.  Once I switched, I was able to get  
> both tuners
> working correctly and successfully captured mpeg using the cat /dev/ 
> video?
> trick.

     Which seems like it could easily be my problem as well.  So, I'm  
wondering if anyone out there can give me a pointer on how to prevent  
the card from being controlled by the kernal modules, and get the  
correct modules from ivtv to load instead.  Will I have to re-compile  
the kernel to do this?

     My kernel version is the latest FC3 kernel: "Linux version  
2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 (bhcompile at porky.build.redhat.com) (gcc version  
3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Wed Sep 14 04:24:31 EDT 2005"

Thanks for any pointers!
Peter Darley

On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Peter Darley wrote:

> Larry,
>     Well, I've put my card into a windows machine and it doesn't  
> appear to be broken.  BeyondTV can use both tuners.
>     I'll check out the ivtv list.  If you make any progress, can  
> you let this list know?
> Thanks,
> Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users- 
> bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Larry K
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:38 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Only one tuner works
>
> I have the same problem, and a lengthy thread over in the ivtv- 
> devel archive.  No solution yet.  I've  tried just about everything.
>
> On 10/20/05, Peter Darley <darley at darleyconsulting.com > wrote: Folks,
>
>         I've just installed a PVR-500, and I'm having a problem.  I  
> can use video1,
> but I get only static on video0.  It seems like the problem is that  
> it's not
> actually able to change channel; I think it's tuning channel 1  
> which I don't
> get, since the static looks just like a tv that doesn't have an  
> antenna or
> cable hooked up.  It's possible that the problem is not that it's not
> changing channel, so I don't want to rule anything out.
>
>         When I try to use ivtv-tune, I get:
> # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video0 -c60
> /dev/video0: 439.250 MHz
>
> # ivtv-tune -d/dev/video1 -c60
> /dev/video1: 439.250 MHz  (Signal Detected)
>
>         Which seems to be saying that the channel change on video0  
> didn't succeed,
> while the change on video1 did.
>
>         I'm hoping that there's someone else out there who has had  
> similar problems
> and can give me a pointer.  I'm also not rulling out that it's just  
> broken.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley
>
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