MythTV

[Adrian Gordinier]

Yeah Curt Just a few days ago I got mine working after many attempts
with fedora and mandrake. If you bought yours at microcenter like I did
and it is model 980 like it says on the box your tuner type is not
phillips like most the other I guess. if you peel back the sticker on
the tuner you will likely see an LG stamped on it. That is tuner 39. So
unlike what the instructions say on www.wilsonet.com/mythtv it does not
auto-detect tuner type. You do have to have this line in your
modprobe.conf like so. 

They show you only needing---
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv

You also need after this---
options ivtv tuner=39

That cleared my problem right up.

If you want my source for my fix I got it off another site where a guy
was doing a mandrake 10.1 install with almost the exact same hardware. I
had better success though using fedora core 3 personally.

http://www.byopvr.com/Sections
+index-req-viewarticle-artid-13-page-1.html 


Hope this helps.
Adrian


On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:58 -0600, Curt Box wrote:
> I've finally struggled through the mysql (no prior experience) portion of 
> setting up a MythTV system and am now having issues with a new Hauppauge 
> PVR-250.  I have the program guide working, can run mythtvsetup, access all 
> the menus, etc. Unfortunately, if I choose "Watch TV" all I get is channel 4. 
> Any attempt to change channels fails, which causes me to suspect that my 
> tuner is incorrectly defined... or the module is not loading correctly...
> Anyone?
>