2008/4/30 Eric Cronin <ecronin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I have an HP Pavilion OEM'd HVR-1800 that I'm giving a shot at getting > working (PVR-500 and HDHR are my production analog/digital inputs). > > I'm running Mythbuntu 8.04 and have tried both with the bundled version of > v4l-dvb modules and a hg copy from April 29, and both have the same problem: > > The card is detected fine and /dev/dvb/* created. When I run 'scan > us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256' it detects nothing, even on > frequencies which I know are QAM256 from the HDHR which is 12" of coax away > from the HVR-1800. Here is an example from the HDHR scan: > > SCANNING: 759000000 (us-cable:118, us-irc:118) > LOCK: qam256 (ss=90 snq=52 seq=100) > PROGRAM: 1: 6.1 WPVI-HD > PROGRAM: 2: 10.1 WCAU-DT > PROGRAM: 3: 6.2 WPVI-SD > PROGRAM: 4: 6.3 WPVI-WX > PROGRAM: 5: 10.2 WX-PLUS > > and from 'scan -v test-chan118' which has just 759000000 in it: > > scanning test-chan118 > using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0' > >>> tune to: 759000000:QAM_256 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! > >>> tune to: 759000000:QAM_256 (tuning failed) > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > >>> tuning status == 0x00 > WARNING: >>> tuning failed!!! > ERROR: initial tuning failed > dumping lists (0 services) > Done. > > I have checked the physical connections best I can. Connecting the > HVR-1800's coax to the PVR-500 sees the analog side of things fine, and the > correct jack on the HVR-1800 is being used. > > I'm not sure where to go from here debugging things, any suggestions or > more data I can provide? The modprobe-produced info from dmesg is at the > end of this message. Eric, When you use the scan command to scan for QAM channels, you must specify -a2, to signify that you are scanning digital cable. Try that -- does that work? -Mike _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
