I am very close, at least I believe I am.

KnoppMyth R4v2 Autoinstall
P4S8X mobo at 2 ghz
256 MB ram
SB Live
Phoebe TV Master (CPH060)
Nvidia GEForce 4 MX 440
SMC PCI Card (Tulip)


Watch TV gives me a mostly green screen with the top quarter flashing different color patterns. I am not sure if the card type was setup correctly or not. I have dinked with the /etc/mythtv/modules/bttv file. There are other files as well.

bttv0 bttv1 bttv2 bttv3 ivtv ivtv0 ivtv1 ivtv2 and ivtv3.

How should these be set? Or am I looking in the wrong place.

Here is what my /etc/mythtv/modules/bttv file has:

alias char-major-81 videodev


Should there be more in there?

Don't touch the other files. Do you know if this card is supported by Video for Linux? Take a look at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Yes it is. It is shown as card # 58. I don't know what to set the tuner type to though.

Perhaps looking at Tier 2 in the hardware section will give you ideas. Do you know the tuner type? Take a look at the card. If you cannot figure it out, set it to zero. If you end up having stablity issues, it maybe be an incorrect tuner type...

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Cesman,

I have been reading all I can on this forum, and others. I have had this card working in other ditros before, so I am sure it will work. I just have to find the magic settings. I am currently doing a new install, and see if there is anything I missed. One other question, with my Gedforce 4 card, should I select XVMC? I didn't select this before, could this be part of the problem?

Thanks

XvMC only comes into play if you have a hardware MPEG card. It does have anything to do with the tuner but rather helps to off load the CPU.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Well, Same as above. New install same green screen with noise at top. Perhaps I should try changing tuner types until I hit on one that works?

did you look at the whole cardlist file? it list the card numbers then after that it should list the tuners, and I believe what card they work with, not sure about that though been a while since I looked at it.

I wouldn't recommend this... I've already recommended the course of act that I'd take.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Ok, I put an old Hauppauge WinTV card in there and it works great, except that it has only mono audio. I think the problem lies in that it is not detecting my Phoebe card correctly. The cardlist says this card is supported, and I have used it before in other linux distributions. I did find on the card the tuner type which is a Temic. It says front end 4032 FY5. On the back of the card is CPH060.

From the card list:

card=58 - Phoebe TV Master Only (No FM)

type=6 - Temic NTSC (4032 FY5)

What do I need to do to force bttv to use this at boot time?

Thanks for all your help. I got it. I added this to /etc/mythtv/modules/bttv file and ran modules-update.

options bttv card=58 pll=1 tuner=6

Now to make sure the sound and everything else is working.