I've been working on my KnoppMyth install for two weeks now and can't seem to get it to work. Just so you know, I'm using a PVR-250 that's probably about 6 years old. The problem is that I can't get a real picture at all. Basically all of my channels look the way that some channels look like when they're blocked by the cable company. You probably know what I mean - you can kind of see a picture, but the colors are off, little vertical hold, and it's an overall fuzzy picture. I've done everything on the troubleshooting page related to the BlackScreenWatchingTV. Nothing. I've got the latest KnoppMyth install, Linux v. 2.6.18, and upgraded to IVTV 0.10.3. I've tried changing the frequencies from STD to HRC to IRC. I've even hooked up an antenna, made the appropriate software adjustments. Still nothing. I've tried finetuning the channels. Some settings got a tad better, but most were only the same or worse. Does anybody have a clue what could be wrong? I'm starting to wonder if it's the card, but I don't have a functioning Windows desktop to double-check on at the moment.

So where did you post the information from the logs as described there? If you want help debugging a hardware problem we need that diagnostic information. That's why the BlackScreenWatchingTV page keeps referring you to the CheckingLogFiles page. The output of v4l2-ctl --all --list-ctrls would also be helpful.

I'll send these when I get home. What log files would you like? Some of the ones that are referenced in that link (which I've checked before) have a few thousand lines to them...

Also, how would I get the output of v4l2-ctl --all --list-ctrls? Sorry, I'm pretty new at this.

The output of v4l2-ctl:

Driver info:
Driver name : ivtv
Card type : Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
Bus info : 0000:01:09.0
Driver version: 2563
Capabilities : 0x01070051
Video Capture
VBI Capture
Sliced VBI Capture
Tuner
Audio
Radio
Read/Write
Format:
Type : Video Capture
Width/Height : 720/480
Pixel Format : MPEG
Field : Interlaced
Bytes per Line: 0
Size Image : 131072
Colorspace : Broadcast NTSC/PAL (SMPTE170M/ITU601)
Format:
Type : Sliced VBI Capture
Service Set :
Service Line 0: /
Service Line 1: /
Service Line 2: /
Service Line 3: /
Service Line 4: /
Service Line 5: /
Service Line 6: /
Service Line 7: /
Service Line 8: /
Service Line 9: /
Service Line 10: /
Service Line 11: /
Service Line 12: /
Service Line 13: /
Service Line 14: /
Service Line 15: /
Service Line 16: /
Service Line 17: /
Service Line 18: /
Service Line 19: /
Service Line 20: /
Service Line 21: /
Service Line 22: /
Service Line 23: /
I/O Size : 0
Format:
Type : VBI Capture
Sampling Rate : 27000000 Hz
Offset : 248 samples (9.18519e-06 secs after leading edge)
Samples per Line: 1439
Sample Format : GREY
Start 1st Field : 10
Count 1st Field : 12
Start 2nd Field : 273
Count 2nd Field : 12
Video input : 0 (Tuner 1)
Audio input : 0 (Tuner 1)
Frequency: 3380 (211.250000 MHz)
Video standard = 0x0000b000
NTSC-M/M-JP/M-KR
Tuner:
Capabilities : 62.5 kHz multi-standard stereo lang1 lang2
Frequency range : 44.0 MHz - 958.0 MHz
Signal strength : 99%
Current audio mode : stereo
Available subchannels: stereo lang2

User Controls

brightness (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=128 value=128 flags=slider
contrast (int) : min=0 max=127 step=1 default=64 value=64 flags=slider
saturation (int) : min=0 max=127 step=1 default=64 value=64 flags=slider
hue (int) : min=-128 max=127 step=1 default=0 value=0 flags=slider
volume (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=58880 value=58880 flags=slider
balance (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=32768 value=32768 flags=slider
bass (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=32768 value=32768 flags=slider
treble (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=32768 value=32768 flags=slider
mute (bool) : default=0 value=0
loudness (bool) : default=0 value=0

MPEG Encoder Controls

stream_type (menu) : min=0 max=5 default=0 value=0 flags=update
stream_vbi_format (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=0 value=0
audio_sampling_frequency (menu) : min=0 max=2 default=1 value=1
audio_encoding_layer (menu) : min=1 max=1 default=1 value=1 flags=update
audio_layer_ii_bitrate (menu) : min=9 max=13 default=10 value=10
audio_stereo_mode (menu) : min=0 max=3 default=0 value=0 flags=update
audio_stereo_mode_extension (menu) : min=0 max=3 default=0 value=0 flags=inactive
audio_emphasis (menu) : min=0 max=2 default=0 value=0
audio_crc (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=0 value=0
video_encoding (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=1 value=1 flags=readonly
video_aspect (menu) : min=0 max=3 default=1 value=1
video_b_frames (int) : min=0 max=33 step=1 default=2 value=2 flags=update
video_gop_size (int) : min=1 max=34 step=1 default=12 value=15
video_gop_closure (bool) : default=1 value=1
video_bitrate_mode (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=0 value=0 flags=update
video_bitrate (int) : min=0 max=27000000 step=1 default=6000000 value=6000000
video_peak_bitrate (int) : min=0 max=27000000 step=1 default=8000000 value=8000000
video_temporal_decimation (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=0 value=0
spatial_filter_mode (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=0 value=0 flags=update
spatial_filter (int) : min=0 max=15 step=1 default=0 value=0 flags=slider
spatial_luma_filter_type (menu) : min=0 max=4 default=0 value=1
spatial_chroma_filter_type (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=0 value=1
temporal_filter_mode (menu) : min=0 max=1 default=0 value=0 flags=update
temporal_filter (int) : min=0 max=31 step=1 default=0 value=8 flags=slider
median_filter_type (menu) : min=0 max=4 default=0 value=0 flags=update
median_luma_filter_minimum (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=0 value=0 flags=inactive slider
median_luma_filter_maximum (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=255 value=255 flags=inactive slider
median_chroma_filter_minimum (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=0 value=0 flags=inactive slider
median_chroma_filter_maximum (int) : min=0 max=255 step=1 default=255 value=255 flags=inactive slider

From dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.18-chw-13 (root@mythtv) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 6 19:57:00 PST 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffc0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffc0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
255MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65472
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 61376 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000ff980
ACPI: RSDT (v001 GATEWA EA81510A 0x20000707 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x0fff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 GATEWA EA81510A 0x20000707 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x0fff1000
ACPI: BOOT (v001 GATEWA EA81510A 0x20000707 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x0fff4000
ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA N0CPP058 0x00000012 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS age (2000) fails cutoff (2002), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:efb80000)
Detected 797.398 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65472
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 splash=silent nomce apm=power-off quiet
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0120a000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 252784k/261888k available (4292k kernel code, 8712k reserved, 1348k data, 268k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 1595.45 BogoMIPS (lpj=797728)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 20k freed
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 111k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f2830
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x20da, dseg 0xf0000
PnPBIOS: 20 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 20 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0500-053f claimed by ICH4 GPIO
Boot video device is 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2440] at 0000:00:1f.0
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0xcf8-0xcff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: fca00000-feafffff
PREFETCH window: e4700000-f47fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: fc900000-fc9fffff
PREFETCH window: dc600000-e46fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1181825175.479:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
JFS: nTxBlock = 1975, nTxLock = 15807
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
io scheduler cfq registered
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xd0980000, using 3750k, total 131072k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e340
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00ce376, set palette = c00ce3e0
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 45842 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 21500 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 75x24
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:01:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.4
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:01:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at d0936c00.
pcnet32.c:v1.32 18.Mar.2006 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.56.
dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
winbond-840.c:v1.01-d (2.4 port) Nov-17-2001 Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/drivers.html
uli526x: ULi M5261/M5263 net driver, version 0.9.3 (2005-7-29)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 1
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DV-5700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-RW 52X24, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Loading iSCSI transport class v1.1-646.<7>libata version 2.00 loaded.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
raid6: int32x1 234 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 273 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 214 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 191 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 636 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 878 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 667 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 875 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse1x2 (875 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 1628.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1628.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Suspend2 Core.
Suspend2 Userspace UI Support module loaded.
Suspend2 Userspace Storage Manager module loaded.
Suspend2 Compressor module loaded.
Suspend2 Encryptor module loaded.
Suspend2 Block I/O module loaded.
Suspend2 Swap Allocator module loaded.
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Suspend2 2.2.8.4: You need to use a resume2= command line parameter to tell Suspend2 where to look for an image.
Suspend2 2.2.8.4: Resume2 parameter is empty. Suspending will be disabled.
Suspend2 2.2.8.4: Missing or invalid storage location (resume2= parameter). Please correct and rerun lilo (or equivalent) before suspending.
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 255): journal_recover: JBD: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 13235 to 14240
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 257): journal_recover: JBD: Replayed 6310 and revoked 0/1 blocks
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 105480
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 105479
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 105478
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 105477
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 105476
EXT3-fs: hda1: 5 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:1f.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 3, io base 0x0000ef40
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.4
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:01:0b.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 9, io base 0x0000ef80
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1f.3
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0e: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.10.3 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.18-chw-13 SMP preempt mod_unload 586 gcc-4.1
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415 based)
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:01:0d.0
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
msp3400 1-0040: MSP3435G-B6 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
msp3400 1-0040: MSP3435G-B6 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 48011, rev G410, serial# 2649783
tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1236 MK2 (idx 10, type 2)
tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is MSP3435 (idx 10)
tveeprom 1-0050: has radio
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
tuner 1-0061: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles))
ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:0a.0
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
Adding 379504k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:379504k
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
input: i2c IR (Hauppauge) as /class/input/input1
ir-kbd-i2c: i2c IR (Hauppauge) detected at i2c-1/1-0018/ir0 [ivtv i2c driver #0]
i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x7f raw=0x187f down=1
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
i2c IR (Hauppauge): unknown key: key=0x7f raw=0x187f down=0
cx2388x cx88-mpeg Driver Manager version 0.0.6 loaded
cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded
cx8802_register_driver() ->registering driver type=dvb access=shared
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
Registering unionfs 20061031-1310
unionfs: debugging is not enabled
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
fuse init (API version 7.7)
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eth0: setting full-duplex.
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 21500 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 21500 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 21500 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 21500 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6>...found (800x600, 21500 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8776 Mon Oct 16 21:56:04 PDT 2006
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 4x mode

What else would be helpful to you?

Thats why that page also tells you what to search for and how to extract the relevant portions, complete with copy & paste ready example commands. If you ssh into the box (possibly using something like "putty" in MS-Windows) you can paste the examples right into a shell session and copy the output right into a posting.

OBTW - It helps if you put the output inside of a markup block so it preserves the formatting...

So far that looks pretty sane. It's one of the original PVR-250 cards which were really just PVR-350 cards without the TV output hardware. It's even got the MPEG decoder... Have you checked the signal quality of the input and the rest of the stuff on the PictureQualityIssues page?

Hopefully this is what you're looking for. Following http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CheckingLogFiles, dmesg | grep "tuner model is TCL M2523_.*_E" returns nothing, and more /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't show any warnings or errors. I apologize for not being too familiar with this. Please let me know if there are any other important commands I've missed that you need from me.

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Anybody have the remotest idea?