Steven, I tried adding some 2 way splitters for attenuation. Each one was -3dB, and I got up to about 5 total, with no change. I didn't get a chance to try under windows (for various reasons mostly related to time and lack of a Windows install CD), but I did get some evidence that it might be the card. I have a friend at work with the same card which he has been using without problems for a while now (in Fedora 10). He took my card home and swapped it for his working card and it didn't work. He said that he got a message saying that the card couldn't lock and that he could either try waiting longer or try another channel. He did both and he still couldn't get a lock. Unless there is some other reason that you can't just swap two working HVR-2250s in a working system and have the system still work, I'm inclined to believe I got a bad one. --dan On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:44 AM, dan <danwalkeriv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I do have 2 2-way splitters between the card in the wall. I tried >>> hooking the card straight to the cable outlet on the wall and ran some >>> more tests. It's a little difficult, because there's only one cable >>> outlet in my whole apartment, and it means doing some re-arranging and >>> being offline while I'm running the tests. >> >> Removing splitters proves it's probably not a weak signal issue (also >> the SNR or 39 on the TV). Can you apply some attenuation to reduce >> the overall rf strength? I'm thinking it's too hot. >> >> Something must be using your second tuner, mythtv maybe? > > Oh, and please try the card under windows ideally on the same PC using > the same antenna feed, to rule out any card specific issues. > > -- > Steven Toth - Kernel Labs > http://www.kernellabs.com > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
