[mythtv-users] wintv pvrusb2 drivers/firmware problem

[Marc Randolph]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Jim Peters <jiminycricket180 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have 4 of these tuners, 3 of them are the 24xx series and 1 is a 29xx
> series, at one time they all worked great and I am not sure what happened to
> cause this but at some point the 29xx tuner started outputting black and white
> video. At first I suspected a hardware failure and thought maybe it was in the
> analog tuner part of the card so I switched it over to using the composite
> side but this didn't help. As a last resort to chalking it up as a failed
> piece of hardware I tried it on a windows machine and it works fine there so I
> am under the impression that this must be a driver/firmware issue. Since my
> other 3 tuners don't have a problem I assume that there must be some part of
> the driver/firmware that only affects the 29xx series cards and the problem lies
> within this, I have no idea where to look for a solution, any help would be
> appreciated.

Have you upgraded/changed kernel or device firmware since it last worked?
Do you have an old kernel handy that you can drop back to and try?
Is there a newer version of the firmware you can try out manually?

Good luck,

   Marc