[olug] Ok.. MythTV'ers... I give up!

[Jay Swackhamer]

What source are you recording from, cox/qwest/air?

Try changing your frequency table to cable-hrc if on cox.

Check to see what the default, and card-specific settings for the
frequency table are in mythtv-setup.

> Not necesarily myth-tv specific... but I acquired a hauppage wintv-pvr-150
> from a friend and am going coo coo for cocoa puffs.. the problem I am
> having is getting the darn thing to tune properly, I have tried everything
> in my powers to get this thing to work, from trying kernel 2.4 vs 2.6 and
> ivtv versions 2.0 ( deprecated, I know ) to the bleeding edge ivtv-devel
> (5.0) to selectively modprobing ivtv with all 10 tuner types I have found
> via google (2,37,39,50,51,55 - and a few other. just for the thrill of it
> )
>
> If I load ivtv with tdda3997=0 and tuner=37 ... I can get mplayer to dump
> the mpeg stream ( mplayer /dev/video0 ) but even rudementarily using
> ivtcctl -r to manually tune the tuner I cannot get it to change
> frequency...
>
>
> I've spent a few hours on it and am about to give up... I have even tried
> different distros:
> knoppmyth, ubuntu, suse 10, FC4, blah blah blah...
>
>
> Has ANYONE here gotten this card to work under linux? I have seen MANY
> reports/howto's that say yes - but I am obviously missing something
> stupid!
>
>
>
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