I am also in the same situation of static/snow using the PVR 150 MCE (media center edition). Unfortunately, I am not a Linux user so I need am struggling with how to complete some of the suggestions. (I installed and used Gentoo a few times almost a year ago but haven't touched it since.) I'm also not sure how to get a web browser on the system, so I'm having the print things from this computer and carry them over, write stuff on a paper and carry them back so there may be errors.

I did the grep tveeprom: /var/log/messages suggested here and got

Grepping from ivtv showed me


So I am guessing that I need to update to the 0.3.6m version of ivtv, but I'm not really sure how. This wiki entry suggests recompiling the kernel, but it is a bit out dated so I'm not sure if that is right anymore. Also, it doesn't say where the .tgz file should be downloaded to.

First off get an SSH and SCP client on your MS-Windows box or iThing. This will make you life so much easier you'll wonder why you didn't hink of it sooner. I do most of my system maintenance via SSH from my workstation box. Trying to use a browser on your KnoppMyth box is more likley to frustrate you than help.

What next?

You're going to need to update ivtv following the directions on the wiki. It doesn't recognize your tuner type which almost always means it just isn't going to work.

Hi,

I'm using the 0.3.3 ivtv(unstable) and it works well for me(pvr-150 non mce).
Fiete: I don't know about the remote im not planing to use it. Instead I'm going to use my knoppmyth box as a backend, and mu xbox as a frontend.

entourage:I'm using af gForce MX400 32 mb card. It works pretty well and i can watch live TV.

Best regards

Funtex

Where am I supposed to put the IVTV files, or does it not matter?

Simply unpack the tar, then goto ivtvpack/driver and run:
make
make install

Then goto ivtvpack/util and run:
make
make install

You should now have the new version installed!

Regards
Funtex

...but unfortunately, you may end up with duplicate modules in the v4l and ivtv driver directories, so a final step of renaming the duplicates in the v4l directory is recommended.

-brendan

Okay, I got ivtv-0.3.6n downloaded and installed (I'm pretty sure) but it still shows static. In the message logs it still has

I spotted ivtv-0.3.3u in /usr/src and tried it, but froze Myth and the F1 console had this message incrementing quickly. where the # was incrementing. I changed it back to 0.3.6n.

Having caused a problem and reverted, I now feel like I'm getting somewhere. I couldn't find a v4l directory to check for duplicate ivtv modules, but the log/messages seems to show the right one being loaded.

My nano /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv has this in it.

Atamido, I think you should try to set your tuner type in ivtv_params.
Try adding this just below alias:


ivtv_std=2 is PAL you might need to change this for your region.
You will have to reboot your computer afterwards.
tuner 51, works for me, but you might have to try different numbers(try 37 or 38 as well -perhaps also other numbers)

I got a picture! It's in black and white, and it is one channel off from what it should be, but it is a picture.
I changed the ivtv_std to 1 because I'm in the US and have NTSC. I also tried tuner=37 and 38, but they were identical. The lower channels are just static, but most of the rest are at least b&w.

Is there a list of numbers I should be trying? Also, this is all in MythTV. Is there any other program I should try?

I got a reference from here and set it to this:
Now i need to work on audio.

I wanted to point out that I was using KnoppMyth R5A16, just in case anyone else needs to read this.

I've also included scans of my card. The front has the cover from the tuner removed and placed above it so you can see inside. Large and extra large versions are available here in case you want to read what the chips say.

Atamido, Good news!

Try

Use this program to set the freq

and then test your TV signal with

The tuner type should be detected automatically!! All cards have an eeprom on board. This eeprom stores serial number of the card and a tuner-index numer. The ivtv deriver has a tuner type list (they got it from Hauppauge) which converts this tuner-index number to the correct tuner-type.

Also your card (type 99) should be auto detected (checked it in the tuner.h/tveeprom.c files)!

Perhaps its stupid what i write here but yesterday i installed KnoppMythTv/ivtv 3.6n and also had the eeprom -tuner type problem (my was idx 97).

I looked at the source of tveeprom.c and noticed that the first 103 eeprom-values are well defined. During further investigation i noticed that not all kernal objects (.ko files) were copied to the right directory, allthough ivtv was reported with the correct version

After copying all .ko files to the correct directory i had absolutely no problem to get the card running.

From your idx (99) i can see that you should actually use tuner type 50 (TUNER_TCL_2002N) But as long as your tveeprom version is wrong this does not work.

It took me hours to find this (I'm new to ivtv/MythTV)!!

BTW: I followed exactly the PVR150 installation instructions in the wiki.