2009/1/25 Wayne and Holly <wayneandholly@xxxxxxxx>: > Hello list, > I have a Leadtek WinFast PxDVR3200 H that I am attempting to utilise with > MythTV. The Wiki site states that experimental support exists for the DVB > side and that "Successful tuning of typical Australian channels" has been > achieved. > I am able to create a channels.conf (attached) using scan, and am then able > to tune using mythtv-setup, however none of these channels are viewable with > the mythfrontend due to it being unable to gain a lock. > > Relevant bits and pieces: > > scan, using the latest it-Varese file scan is able to tune to three of the > five transponders as per the attached file "scan". It also scans on > 800000000Hz but I have no idea why. > > The file leadtek.dmesg contains the relevant info from dmesg (and > messages.log) regarding the initialisation of the card itself. There are no > error messages at any time (that I am aware of) despite all of my fiddling > about. > > Of the three transponders that are in my channels.conf file, the third one > (618000000Hz) causes an error when tuning in mythtv-setup. It states that > channels are found but the tsid is incorrect. As such, only the first two > successful transponders (706000000 and 602000000) are tuned by myth. > > When I attempt to view the tuned channels, myth is unable to gain a lock on > any of them. The reported signal strength is about 58% and the S/N varies > between 3 and 3.8dB. I am able to tune DVB-T channels on my TV using the > same aerial cable but am wondering if signal strength is an issue. > > I am running it on Kubuntu with a 2.6.24-19 kernel, I have a recent version > of the v4l-dvb tree (approx Nov 08) and am using firmware version 2.7. I > haven't updated the drivers or the firmware as I have no reason to believe > there are changes that would effect this. That said, if someone thinks > there has been changes I will get straight on it. > > I am more than happy to provide more debugging info if required (if you are > willing to tell me where else to look) and appreciate any help provided. > > Cheers > Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb users mailing list > For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > I have the same card, so this might help. I was experiencing many frontend problems when I came across a references in the list to a third party firmware files. It explained that you had to download and extract the firmware within to the firmware dir. I cannot remember exactly what, where and which, however, if you'd like, I can email the extracted fw.tar.bz2(1.5MB) and ivtv.firmware.tar.bz2(123KB) files to you. Then just extract the contents to your firmware dir (on Gentoo /lib/firmware). Anyway, long story short, that fixed it for me. Now I'm just waiting to be able to use the FM radio. -- Regards, Robert ..... Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I have never been able to make out the numbers. --- Errata: Spelling mistakes are not intentional, however, I don't use spell checkers because it's too easy to allow the spell checker to make the decisions and use words that are out of context for that being written, i.e. their/there, your/you're, threw/through and even accept/except, not to mention foreign (I'm Australian) English spelling, i.e. colour/color, socks/sox, etc,. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb users mailing list For V4L/DVB development, please use instead linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
