I can't seem to get my PVR-150 model 1045 to show anything but snow and every channel. The sound also is nothing but static. I have cable and have the coax going straight into the tuner card. It's not the cable itself because I tried it on my Windows machine and its PVR-250. I tried going through all the US cable frequency tables to no avail. I also tried adding "options tuner-50" to the ivtv config file. I tried upgrading the firmware and compilng and installing ivtv 0.4.6, but I still get nothing but static. I have R5C7 installed. Anyone have any ideas what might be causing the problem? See the ivtv log below.

Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv: version 0.4.6 (tagged release) loading
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-chw-2 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (cx23416 based)
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:09.0 (0014 -> 0016)
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
Sep 15 23:10:52 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: cx25841-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: cx25840 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 26132, rev G1B2, serial# 9831892
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 4)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25841 (idx 35)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25841 (idx 28)
Sep 15 23:10:56 mythtv kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x00 not found for command 0x40045403!
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x00 not found for command 0x40085618!
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x00 not found for command 0x402c5639!
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0
Sep 15 23:10:57 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================

Try putting "options ivitv tuner=50" in /etc/modprobe.conf I think that's the right settings. If you look in the Teir 2 forum for my post, that'll definately give you the right one.

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I tried that... Didn't work, unfortunately.

After you upgraded the drivers did you do steps 8-11 from the CompileIvtv instructions? Step 11 is absolutely vital because of the way that the input numbering changes between revs. Too many people seem to think I was "just kidding" about that (and rebooting) when I wrote those directions.

Have you tried monkeyed with fine tuning? This can often provide valuable clues.

Yeah, was sure to complete all the steps in the tutorial. Where can fine tuning be accessed? Also, would the warnings that I bolded in my ivtv log be enough to cause the card to not work?

They indicate that there's some kind of mismatch in what/where the system thinks the card is and reality. This could be because of misidentification or stale mapping which is why I asked about step 11. If the driver is trying to send tuner commnads to the composite in for example you could see something like this.

Well, I got the same errors from before and after the ivtv compile, so I don't think that's it. I also tried installing R5D1, and with the same tuner type setting, and R5D1's included ivtv 0.7.0, the card works. I understand there's some kind of problem with transcoding in R5D1 and so would prefer to stick with R5C7 (unless there's some fix for the transcoding problem?). Might anything else be causing it? I know some people had some issues with the TCL M2523_5N_E based models, which is what I have. Is it just simply that the included ivtv version from R5C7 (and 0.4.6) isn't compatible with that tuner?

Upgrading R5D1 to 0.20 using Cecil's DEBs, although you should keep an eye on the MythTV 0.20 fixes revision log for bugs that might bite you, as 0.20 is still a bit raw.
Cecil's 0.20 DEBs - http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11558
Revision log - http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/log/branches ... 0-20-fixes

Well, I installed 0.20, one problem though. In all the menus in MythTV, I have no text now. The program guide and the on screen info have text, as do any of the modules once you go into them. But, the MythTV main menu and the submenus have no text. If I run mythfrontend from the terminal, I get the following error when starting:

couldn't open fontconfigs chosen font with Xft!!!

Any idea how I might go about getting it fixed?

I saw in a different thread that someone fixed this by picking a different theme. It was only the retro theme that didn't have text.