[mythtv-users] Noob Problem with M179

[Bob Weber]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 01:19 pm, Bob Weber wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 August 2005 07:50 pm, KeithRocheck at aol.com wrote:
> > The
> > one assigned to /dev/video0 increments the channels by one (so channel 5
> > ends up being channel 6), but this does not occur for /dev/video1.
>
> My problem was that the tuner simply didn't work. I would get a staticy
> version of channel 60, and couldn't change it. I had to specify the tuner
> in /etc/modprobe.conf. Here's a paste from that post.
>
> > The issue was that while ivtv correctly detected my video card as an
> > m179,
>
> it wasn't able to detect the tuner. dmesg would show
>
> > tuner 0-0060: tuner type not set
> >
> > For this card, the tuner type should be 2, it seems. I added the
> > following line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
> >
> > options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=2

Oops. On gentoo, /etc/modprobe.conf is regenerated on reboot. I put these 
lines in a /etc/modules.d/ivtv. modprobe.conf then had the correct option.

> >
> > Now when I modprobe ivtv, the above dmesg line now shows that the tuner
> > type is 2. I can change channels, and the video looks fine (well, fine
> > for an M179).
>
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