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Help with FC4 0.18 -> 0.19, blew up IVTV now can't record or remote... Thanks for the help!

If you are getting static then its not ivtv. You are watching the tv tuner
input which is not tuned to a useful channel. Have you tried watching the
video card directly? Something along the lines of cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
and then try to play that with mplayer? I suspect you have an external
problem. I forget the commands to configure the card at the command line but
a google should help. Last time I looked Jarod's site had a section on
testing the source manually. Check it out again.

Worst thing that could happen is you have to go and download one of the
precompiled FC4+myth packages announced here on the list in the past few
weeks.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces (at) mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces (at) mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Maverick
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 4:14 AM
> To: MythTV Users List
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Help with FC4 0.18 -> 0.19,blew up 
> IVTV now can't record or remote... Thanks for the help!
> 
> 
> OK, I've been doing a lot of reading/search trying to fix my 
> FC4 box, but to not much avail. Here's what I did:
> 
> I had a reasonably stock FC4 'Jarod guide' install. 0.18, 
> ivtv 2.x? Worked fine. I have an external tuner with a change 
> channel script... everything I used (recording, watching, 
> etc) worked...
> 
> Then I decide to upgrade... I did a yum mythtv-suite last 
> weekend. Everything went fine, when I restarted mythbackend 
> it upgraded the database, and all was set. I had a perfectly 
> working 0.19 setup for the past week, or so it seemed...
> 
> Then the box lost power! BOOM... Now I get static and can't 
> record. I did a little log checking, apparently I got ivtv 
> 0.4.1 as part of my atrpms myth-suite deal. DAMN IT I say, 
> the old ivtv worked perfectly!! Anyway, now I have a broken 
> mytvbox that tunes nothing but static.
> 
> So I read up on ivtv, and in my attempts to fix it, I've 
> reloaded the ivtv package and deps, because I found out the 
> firmware changed and there's a problem with yum solving a 
> dependency thing with the new init.mpg firmware (thanks alex 
> for the bug report ->
> http://www.mail-archive.com/atrpms-users (at) atrpms.net/msg01032.h
tml) ... In doing the ivtv remove/install, it broke my remote too. I have a
PVR-350 that has a remote I use, now that doesn't work either.

My two main problems are:

* Static on the tuner, something wrong with tuning channel 3? (It's set to 3
in mythtvsetup still) Does the new ivtv not obey my modprobe.conf stuff?

* PVR-350 remote config doesn't work anymore...

My girlfriend is about to kill me. Help!

Can I just go back to the old ivtv and be happy? How can I fix this? I
search the list and only found one thread w/ two emails, nothing helpful. I
have a hard time believing I'm the only one struck my moving up to the newer
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