[ tvtime-Bugs-965486 ] tvtime 0.9.12-5 in FC2 - ATI tuner card

Bugs item #965486, was opened at 2004-06-02 23:32
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Category: Capture and tuner related
>Group: Open bugs in CVS tvtime
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 9
Submitted By: B. Merkin (bjmerkin)
>Assigned to: Billy Biggs (vektor)
Summary: tvtime 0.9.12-5 in FC2 - ATI tuner card

Initial Comment:
I am having problems with the tvtime app in Fedora Core
2.  The channels are black-and-white and numbers
off-by-one.  My hardware is as follows:

Gigabyte 8INXP with P4 3.06
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI TV Wonder VE tuner card

While using FC1, this was easily remedied by using the
instructions on the tvtime website

http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/problems.html#tvwonder

as follows:

"The tuner driver defaults to detecting a PAL tuner on
many NTSC capture cards, a notable example being the
ATI TV Wonder cards. This causes all of the cable
frequencies to be out of alignment, channel numbers are
off-by-one and slightly detuned. To fix this, the tuner
module must be told explicitly the tuner type when it
is loaded by doing the following:

    modprobe tuner type=2

You may have to first remove the bttv module if it is
already loaded. To make this change automatic, in your
/etc/modules.conf file, add the following line:

    options tuner type=2

This will ensure that whenever the tuner module is
loaded, it will use the correct tuner for this card."

However, with FC2 we have modprobe.conf instead of
modules.conf.  I have been having trouble with the
correct syntax/placement of the options line in
modprobe.conf.  Here's my current modprobe.conf:

alias eth0 e1000
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null
2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store
>/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r
--ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias char-major-81 bttv
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd

Any suggestions? 

Thanks.

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>Comment By: Billy Biggs (vektor)
Date: 2004-06-22 09:23

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Please post the full output of 'dmesg' on your system.  You
have to be careful (and I need to update my documentation):
under 2.6 it was changed so you have to do:

options bttv tuner=2

instead of giving the option directly to the tuner module. 
Maybe this is the problem?

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2004-06-22 03:20

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dddd

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2004-06-22 03:18

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I had the same problem. Before running tvtime if you use the
modprobe command it solves the problem. If you want a
permanent solution you don't need to edit any .conf file.
This is what i did (logged with the root account):

Open the Fedora Menu/Preferences/Sessions

Click on Startup Programs

Add the "modprobe tuner type=2"

Ok/Close

Reboot your system.

After doing your b/w problem should be solved.

I hope this helps you, it worked for me!

Regards,

EL_KIN (teka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)


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Comment By: Hermann Pitton (hermann11)
Date: 2004-06-03 10:43

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Hi,

alias char-major-81-* videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=X tuner=X  #set your values and more
options if needed

Should be accordingly for i2c, enable as needed.

alias char-major-89-* i2c-dev
#options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
#options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1

Unfortunately the driver knows no way to determine the tuner
type for this card, e.g. by decoding that info from eeprom
data like for the hauppauge cards. It historically defaults
to the Pal tuner, because that card config was simply first
submitted. In case tuner=2 doesn't solve all problems, for
NTSC-M also tuner 8 and 17 have been reported for now on
some cards and likely there are more to come.

In case exotic modules.conf settings need translation to
2.6.x, there comes the script generate-modprobe.conf with
the module-init-tools.
A dryrun: "generate-modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf-test".

Hermann



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