I've been fighting with this card for a couple of days. I've searched the forum and tried every combination I could possably find, However all I still recieve when attempting to watch liveTV is static with green. I've found simular issues, but no real resolutions. According to the pamphlet my card should be 37, I've tried 70, 72 etc. Also tried several different tuner settings, all with no results. This is a US based card and I have Comcast cable, I've tested the cable line and I have signal (as when I put the card in my windowz box I can view tv)
Basically I'm trying to see if anyone else has this card here in the US and has figured out what tuner it has on it.
Oh, I've also double, tripple, etc, cheched my mythsetup settings as well, using ntsc us_cable etc.
For right now I'm just looking to get this system, which will probably end up being backend and I'll set up a frontend later, but for now this one needs to do it all (and if I can get the video out of the ATI card working without much hassle, it may remain the only box.) Any assistance is appriciated
Specs:
Athlon 1.6ghz
512 Mb ram
80 GB IDE HDD
Pixelview PlayTV Pro (PV-BT878P+) rev. 10a
ATI video card (I, know, I know, but it's what I have for now)
Ensoniq 5880 sound card.
Now for the tech bits:
lspci -v (as root) output:
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at d9001000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at d000 [disabled] [size=4]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: d6000000-d7ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d3ffffff
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d400 [size=16]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
0000:00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
Flags: medium devsel
Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device f312
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at d9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Sound Blaster 16PCI 4.1ch
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at e400 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at d9002000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
0000:00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at d9003000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0538
Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
I/O ports at c000 [size=256]
Memory at d7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at d6000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
dmesg |grep tuner Output:
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bttv0: using tuner=-1
dmesg |grep bttv Output:
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bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0b.0, irq: 5, latency: 32, mmio: 0xd9002000
bttv0: using: *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC *** [card=0,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=002fffff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=-1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
dmesg|grep tveeprom Output:
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tveeprom 0-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-121)?
One note, I removed any of the attempted custom settings I had tried before I pulled these results.
Amos B.
aka TheBigRed