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memmott at gmail

Sep 3, 2006, 7:31 PM

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MythTV works, but channels off by one, XAWTV doesn't work

Hi everybody!

I've been battling my MythTV install for a week now, and I've almost
got it. However, I'm having some last minute issues with my TV tuner,
and I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction. My system
consists of the following:

Fedora Core 4
2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 kernel
ASUS A7VBX-MX SE motherboard (Nforce4 chipset, I believe)
Hauppauge WinTV 38101 rev B426 tuner card, Conexant 878A chip

Here's the issue: All channels in MythTV are off by one. It says I'm
on channel 5 when I'm on 6, etc. Running TVTime, I have no problems...
Channels display what they really are, and everything seems ok. Trying
to launce XAWTV, however, just gives me a blue screen. I've tried
ftvco to determine the exact configuration, but when I run it I get
this error:

================================
ERROR: Module bttv is in use by bt878
FATAL: Error inserting tuner
(/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko):
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
trying: tuner type=0 --- bttv card=26 pll=0
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.17-1.2142_FC4)
================================

...And the screen is always blue no matter what I do. Hey, that rhymed.

My modprobe.conf looks like this:

alias eth0 via-rhine
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-via82xx index=0
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/m
odprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

Finally, I set up a .xawtv file in my mythtv user's home folder with
the following (I'm in the US, with coax cable plugged directly into
the card):

[global]
ratio = 4:3
freqtab = us-cable
pixsize = 320 x 240
pixcols = 1
jpeg-quality = 75
keypad-ntsc = no
keypad-partial = yes
osd = yes
#
[defaults]
norm = NTSC
input = television
capture = over
color = 45%
contrast = 42%


I'm no Linux expert when it comes to drivers and such, but I am
learning! I was hoping somebody could tell me what I'm missing -
hopefully it's just a dummy error, but I'm running out of ideas, and
could appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!
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mattiehg at gmail

Sep 5, 2006, 9:01 AM

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Re: MythTV works, but channels off by one, XAWTV doesn't work [In reply to]

Matt Emmott wrote:

>Hi everybody!
>
>I've been battling my MythTV install for a week now, and I've almost
>got it. However, I'm having some last minute issues with my TV tuner,
>and I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction. My system
>consists of the following:
>
>Fedora Core 4
>2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 kernel
>ASUS A7VBX-MX SE motherboard (Nforce4 chipset, I believe)
>Hauppauge WinTV 38101 rev B426 tuner card, Conexant 878A chip
>
>Here's the issue: All channels in MythTV are off by one. It says I'm
>on channel 5 when I'm on 6, etc. Running TVTime, I have no problems...
>Channels display what they really are, and everything seems ok. Trying
>to launce XAWTV, however, just gives me a blue screen. I've tried
>ftvco to determine the exact configuration, but when I run it I get
>this error:
>
>================================
>ERROR: Module bttv is in use by bt878
>FATAL: Error inserting tuner
>(/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko):
>Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>trying: tuner type=0 --- bttv card=26 pll=0
>
>
I'm not familiar with the ftvco script, but obviously it is trying to
remove the bttv module and is unable to do so because of bt878. You
might try manually removing the bt878 module before running the script.

If you still get the error regarding tuner.ko after doing that, you will
need to check dmesg (as suggested) to get some more information.



>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.17-1.2142_FC4)
>================================
>
>...And the screen is always blue no matter what I do. Hey, that rhymed.
>
>My modprobe.conf looks like this:
>
>alias eth0 via-rhine
>alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
>options snd-card-0 index=0
>options snd-via82xx index=0
>remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/m
>odprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
>alias char-major-81 bttv
>alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
>alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
>
>Finally, I set up a .xawtv file in my mythtv user's home folder with
>the following (I'm in the US, with coax cable plugged directly into
>the card):
>
>[global]
>ratio = 4:3
>freqtab = us-cable
>pixsize = 320 x 240
>pixcols = 1
>jpeg-quality = 75
>keypad-ntsc = no
>keypad-partial = yes
>osd = yes
>#
>[defaults]
>norm = NTSC
>input = television
>capture = over
>color = 45%
>contrast = 42%
>
>
>I'm no Linux expert when it comes to drivers and such, but I am
>learning! I was hoping somebody could tell me what I'm missing -
>hopefully it's just a dummy error, but I'm running out of ideas, and
>could appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users [at] mythtv
>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
>

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memmott at gmail

Sep 5, 2006, 10:18 AM

Post #3 of 4 (2058 views)
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Re: MythTV works, but channels off by one, XAWTV doesn't work [In reply to]

On 9/5/06, Matt <mattiehg [at] gmail> wrote:
> Matt Emmott wrote:
>
> >Hi everybody!
> >
> >I've been battling my MythTV install for a week now, and I've almost
> >got it. However, I'm having some last minute issues with my TV tuner,
> >and I'm hoping you guys can point me in the right direction. My system
> >consists of the following:
> >
> >Fedora Core 4
> >2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 kernel
> >ASUS A7VBX-MX SE motherboard (Nforce4 chipset, I believe)
> >Hauppauge WinTV 38101 rev B426 tuner card, Conexant 878A chip
> >
> >Here's the issue: All channels in MythTV are off by one. It says I'm
> >on channel 5 when I'm on 6, etc. Running TVTime, I have no problems...
> >Channels display what they really are, and everything seems ok. Trying
> >to launce XAWTV, however, just gives me a blue screen. I've tried
> >ftvco to determine the exact configuration, but when I run it I get
> >this error:
> >
> >================================
> >ERROR: Module bttv is in use by bt878
> >FATAL: Error inserting tuner
> >(/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/tuner.ko):
> >Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> >trying: tuner type=0 --- bttv card=26 pll=0
> >
> >
> I'm not familiar with the ftvco script, but obviously it is trying to
> remove the bttv module and is unable to do so because of bt878. You
> might try manually removing the bt878 module before running the script.
>
> If you still get the error regarding tuner.ko after doing that, you will
> need to check dmesg (as suggested) to get some more information.
>
>
>
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
> >This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.17-1.2142_FC4)
> >================================
> >
> >...And the screen is always blue no matter what I do. Hey, that rhymed.
> >
> >My modprobe.conf looks like this:
> >
> >alias eth0 via-rhine
> >alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
> >options snd-card-0 index=0
> >options snd-via82xx index=0
> >remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/m
> >odprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
> >alias char-major-81 bttv
> >alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
> >alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
> >
> >Finally, I set up a .xawtv file in my mythtv user's home folder with
> >the following (I'm in the US, with coax cable plugged directly into
> >the card):
> >
> >[global]
> >ratio = 4:3
> >freqtab = us-cable
> >pixsize = 320 x 240
> >pixcols = 1
> >jpeg-quality = 75
> >keypad-ntsc = no
> >keypad-partial = yes
> >osd = yes
> >#
> >[defaults]
> >norm = NTSC
> >input = television
> >capture = over
> >color = 45%
> >contrast = 42%
> >
> >
> >I'm no Linux expert when it comes to drivers and such, but I am
> >learning! I was hoping somebody could tell me what I'm missing -
> >hopefully it's just a dummy error, but I'm running out of ideas, and
> >could appreciate some help. Thanks in advance!
> >_______________________________________________
> >mythtv-users mailing list
> >mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
> >
I had to replace my Geforce card with a newer PCI card, as the
original card did not have SVideo-out. After swapping the video cards,
the channels are now displaying normally. Strange, since I never
touched the tv capture card, but it seems to now work.
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jimdscott at gmail

Nov 5, 2006, 2:19 PM

Post #4 of 4 (1964 views)
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Re: MythTV works, but channels off by one, XAWTV doesn't work [In reply to]

>
> > >Here's the issue: All channels in MythTV are off by one. It says I'm
> > >on channel 5 when I'm on 6, etc. Running TVTime, I have no problems...
> > >Channels display what they really are, and everything seems ok. Trying
> > >to launce XAWTV, however, just gives me a blue screen. I've tried
> > >ftvco to determine the exact configuration, but when I run it I get
> > >this error:
> > >
> I had to replace my Geforce card with a newer PCI card, as the
> original card did not have SVideo-out. After swapping the video cards,
> the channels are now displaying normally. Strange, since I never
> touched the tv capture card, but it seems to now work.
> _______________________________________________
>

Anyone else had this problem? I've only been running MythTV for 2 days. On
day 1, channels worked fine. Today, my broadcast channels are all off by 1
in the lineup. If I choose channel 11 from the Guide, I get channel 13
video.

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