Good idea about testing it in Windows, I thought it just couldn't be
one broken tuner out of two, I figured it had to be the whole card or
nothing, but man was I wrong. Let me tell you, it is really
killer living without my card for this long. I figured they'd
have it right back to me, but of course they mailed it to the wrong
address, and I wasn't able to get the UPS tracking number out of them
until it had already been sent on its way back to NY (and I live in
SoCal), so it'll be about a month without my card by the time it gets
back. Having only one tuner I'd gotten quite adept at finding all
of the odd, middle-of-the-night rerun times for shows, but I figured
with the new season coming up here and the fact that the major networks
hardly rerun their shows like cable ones do, I might as well get it
RMA'd before it drives me nuts.<br><br>
Stefan<br>
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P.S. Sorry about the name confusion...<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Sherohman</b> <<a href="mailto:esper@sherohman.org">esper@sherohman.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:52:46PM -0700, Stefan Wrobel wrote:<br>> Eolake,<br><br>It's Dave, actually... My .sig is just a quote from Eolake (and is<br>seems that the article I'm quoting has disappeared, so I need to find
<br>a new .sig anyhow).<br><br>> I had the same problem and thought that it was a configuration problem. I<br>> tried and tried and tried to get it to work, but finally I got wise and<br>> fired the card up on a windows box ... the 2nd tuner was dead.
<br><br>I have considered the possibility of a dead tuner... If that is the<br>case, then I guess I'll just have to put 2 PVR-500s in my myth box<br>since I won't want it to be out of commission while waiting for an<br>RMA to go through. (As if my hard drive isn't filling up too fast
<br>with only one tuner already.)<br><br>> Hopefully both<br>> tuners on this one will be good. Do both tuners show up on cat /proc/pci?<br><br>My myth box's kernel has deprecated /proc/pci, but lspci shows both:<br>
<br>0000:02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc<br>iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)<br>0000:02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc<br>iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
<br><br>> Both of mine did, but if i did ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video1 I got all sorts of<br>> screwy values for brightness, contrast, etc that clued me in that maybe<br>> something just wasn't working right with the hardware.
<br><br>Something like<br><br>Brightness = -475234752<br>Contrast = -1054774144<br>Saturation = -852037632<br><br>you mean? I was ascribing that to the card not having accepted the<br>commands sent by the driver to initialize it, but I see now that, if
<br>I run ivtvctl more than once, I get different values for those three<br>settings each time. That's not good... Guess I will need to try it<br>on a Windows box and see what happens there.<br><br>--<br>The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the
<br>White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that<br>we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.<br> - Eolake Stobblehouse (<a href="http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html">
http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html</a>)<br></blockquote></div><br>