[mythtv-users] PVR-500 saga continues

Bill Bill at explosivo.com
Mon Feb 26 20:15:47 UTC 2007


On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:33:25 -0700
Karl Hegbloom <karlheg at gmail.com> spake:

> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 18:32 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> > > I'm using a hand-built Ubuntu 2.6.20 kernel from recent sources
> > > (Feisty Fawn, patched with driver for my HighPoint RocketRaid 2300)
> > > with IVTV 0.9.1.
> > >
> > Then you have the LNA on by default which is weird as with the LNA on
> > you should not have one tuner with snow and the other without.
> 
> I'm sorry, I miscommunicated.  It used to be that way, but at some
> point, both tuners started working about the same, though tuner 2 is
> still not as good on some channels.  I assumed it was either the signal
> booster or a better signal from the cable company.  I did not yet know
> about the LNA.
> 
> I don't think that the signal booster is adjustable.  If it was, I would
> experiment with turning down the amplification to see if the diagonal
> lines go away.  I suppose I will have to find an attenuator, or perhaps
> move the amp to behind the splitter, or both.


I had the same issue, but I just got a really bad picture on one tuner,
close to snow, but not quite.

The LNA gets turned on in the later kernels.  Once I turned that off it
was much better




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