I've searched all the message boards an cannot find someone with a similar issue. It appears that everything installed fine wit RA12. My PVR250 was found and loaded as video0. When I try to watch live tv, the screen is black and then goes back to the menu. I exited myth and logged in as root to run a couple test mentioned in several boars

cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/foo.mpg

the video is dark for a few seconds then runs fine so I am getting a feed.

i've tried changing the tuner card to tuner0, composite0, and everything else.

Not sure where to go from here. This is my dmesg

FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD400BB-32CAA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: CR-4804TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
libata version 1.02 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
KBC0 SLOT USB AC97
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 255): journal_recover: JBD: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 3055 to 3169
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 257): journal_recover: JBD: Replayed 1400 and revoked 0/7 blocks
EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 184512
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 184511
EXT3-fs: hda1: 2 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
Adding 672328k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 11, io base 00001080
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
usb 1-1.1: new low speed USB device using address 3
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using address 4
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-1.1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1f.2-1.1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
ub: sizeof ub_scsi_cmd 60 ub_dev 940
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
uba: device 4 capacity nsec 9161152 bsize 2048
uba: was not changed
uba:<6>Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 0
end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device uba, logical block 0
unable to read partition table
usbcore: registered new driver ub
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:08.0 (0100 -> 0103)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd8c28000, 00:10:b5:8a:ca:4e, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49473 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 10
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
ivtv: Unknown parameter `debug'
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3i) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.9-chw-4 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:09.0 (0114 -> 0116)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x7120 vendor: 0x8086
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
tuner: type set to 39 (LG NTSC (newer TAPC series)) by insmod option
tuner: The type=<n> insmod option will go away soon.
tuner: Please use the tuner=<n> option provided by
tuner: tv aard core driver (bttv, saa7134, ...) instead.
msp34xx: ivtv version
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3445G-B8, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G) no-thread mode
msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Apr 3 2005 14:49:40
ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3445G-B8,ok]
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32062, rev = C182, serial# = 7811811
tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPC H791F (idx = 82, type = 39)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3445 (type = 12)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 39, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 0x008d1612, Revision 0x00000000
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers 4194304 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers 2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
ivtv: Setting Tuner 39
saa7115: decoder set input (4)
saa7115: now setting Composite input
ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 1545, itv = 0xd8e4f9a0
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0465bc0(lo)
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
saa7115: decoder disable output
saa7115: decoder set input (0)
saa7115: now setting Composite input
ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 1, output 1
saa7115: decoder enable output
saa7115: decoder set size
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
saa7115: decoder set picture bright=128 contrast=63 saturation=64 hue=0
saa7115: decoder set picture bright=128 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0
saa7115: decoder disable output
saa7115: decoder enable output
input: PC Speaker
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 320M
agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:12:51 PST 2004
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
root@mythtv:/etc/modutils#
root@mythtv:/etc/modutils#

I'd hardly consider the PVR-250 Tier 3 hardware. Edit /etc/mythtv/moudles/ivtv. Comment or remove then reboot.

Thank you! That did the trick. I was adding this line to modules.conf, based on recommendations from the mythtv forum. I guess mythmodules loads first in knopp.

As for posting to the correct topic, the heading reads "Hardware to avoid, couldn't get it working no matter what you did. Please provide steps taken(someone may have the same problem and got it to work)."

In my case "couldn't get it working no matter what you did" was my situation. I've seen a couple people blasted for using this Tier 3 for the same type of post.....please have the heading changed and newbies like myself will stop posting these here.