On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:19:21PM +0100, Ted Johansson wrote: > I can confirm "me too" mostly for the same hardware and using the new > 0.7.103 driver but with white noise both for simple=1 and =0. > > When activitng the radio, e.g. 'radio -f 103.3', I get the following in > syslog: > > kernel: tuner: radio freq (400.00) out of range (65-108) > > Is there a unit problem with the frequency numbers, or a bug in the > "read frequency to set the tuner" routine? > > > Additional comment/question on the TV-function of the card: > The tv-tuner worked only after getting the 0.7.102-driver and tuner=33. > When comparing with Windows, the TV-signal is weaker and easily > disturbed by moving the cable. Consequently the picture quality at some > channel can be significantly worse (from time to time) than when running > windows. Could there be a built-in pre-amplifer for the TV-card that is > not activated in linux, hence the worse reception? In the windows driver, I think there is a antenna/cable setting of signal strength. Is there a similar setting in bttv? If not, what is it set to? > > > > Regards, Ted > > > Michael Pearce wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:28 am, Marius Kotsbak wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:11:03PM +1100, Michael Pearce wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, I just bought a PCTV Pro today after reading various reviews, seeing > >>>it was quite high quality. I also check around the net for linux support, > >>>and it seemed to be supported by bttv > >>> > >>>TV works fine, great picture and sound (using 0.7.102), but radio doesn't > >>>work at all. > >>>After perusing this list's archives, I'e seen it suggested that passing > >>>simple=0 or simple=1 to msp3400 might work. It doesn't :P > >> > >>Sure. Have you tried that? > >> > > > > > > Yeah, I have. > > I'm using bttv 0.7.103 now, and the problem is still there, though very > > slightly different. When simple is set to 1, I get no audio output at all, > > not even for half a second. When simple=0, I get the static again, but this > > time it's continuous - it doesn't cut out after half a second. > > This thing just refuses to give radio output to me... > > > > I know the card and antenna works - radio works perfectly in windows with the > > Pinnacle drivers. Interestingly, if I listen to the radio in windows, then > > reboot into linux without turning the machine off, I can listen to the radio > > perfectly. The problem being, I can only listen to the station I was > > listening to last in windows, and I can't watch TV any more. So that's not > > really a problem. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this. It seems to me > > (me knowing nothing at all about tuner cards, or writing drivers...) that the > > problem lies in the setting of the station. The audio output works just fine > > > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
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