I have everything installed and working just fine.

Except I had to not install one tuner (ATI VE) because I couldn't save the xawtv settings. Without those, it doesnt work at all. So I just installed the 350 and its working fine.

It said to save it (the .xawtv file) in the HOME directory. I assumed the home directory was just / . So that how I saved it in nano - just put /.xawtv

Also need to save the .xmodmap file in the home directory also right? I tried the same thing and its not working.

So how do I save those files?

O and could someone give me a sample of what a xawtv config file should look like? I found a sample and tried to replicate it for my settings but I wasnt sure it had changed or anything - I think the page was kinda dated.

thanks

The home directory is specified in the sixth column of the /etc/passwd file for each user. Usually it is under /home for most users and /root for root. The / directory you were referring to is called root (just like the user even though they are different things).
On a KnoppMyth system the frontend and backend run under the user mythtv which has it's home directory in /home/mythtv. Your best bet is to save the file as /home/mythtv/.xawtv.

thanks it was /root


and the .xmodmap still doesnt pick up. its ok for now since some of the ATI remote wonder buttons work by default.

thanks again

JFox95

I hope this is relevant to you. It sounds like you are having infamous ATI TV Wonder VE configuration problem.

You should not need .xawtv settings for the ATI TV Wonder VE card. All it needs is the proper module options.

Which /etc/mythtv/modules/bttv file is getting included in the modules.conf file?

#modprobe -c | grep "include"

should give something like this:

include /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
include /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv0
include /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv1
include /etc/mythtv/modules/bttv2

Make sure the bttv2 (or whichever it is for you) file contains :

alias char-major-81-2 bttv
options bttv card=64 tuner=2

and your ATI TV Wonder VE should work perfectly without and .xawtv settings.

Just a thought...

Andrew Lynch

and the .xawtv works some but it doesnt pick the frequency table

heres wat i have:
[global]
freqtab = us-cable

then i have the defaults and it read that right

and i tried to listing out the channels b/c its one channel off so i have to do this to get the channels right:

rmmod bttv
rmmod tuner
modprobe bttv tuner=2


i couldnt tell u wat that does but it works lol

Please post your module options and the kernel messages from dmesg.

I'll bet your bttv tuner=19 even though you specified tuner=2.

Just paste the resutls from

#modprobe -c | grep "bttv"

and

#dmesg | grep "bttv"

Thanks!

Andrew Lynch

PS, one trick I have used before is to force tuner module to load first and specify it as

options tuner=2

*then* load the bttv module.