How do I get my MagicXpress TvTuner card to work under redhat 7.1 it has a Bt848 chipset. What software do i need?

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I have installed xawtv and it seems to be working great but the picture is fuzzy so i obviously need to tune it in but I cannot find any place to do this

How do I tune it in?

Is there a config file somewhere perhaps that I type the frequency in?

Help!

Streams

xawtv has a control panel which lets you adjust to what cable you are using, this should help, try and play around with that. Also...how did you get the card runing in linux?, is it an out of the box install or did you configure your kernel and then upgraded?

it is an out of the box install. But it seems to work ok I cannot seem to figure out how to tune it in. I can fine tune but other thant that its a no go.

just write ~/.xawtv manually, it's very very easy....

easy huh?

oh an xawtv IS the best, simplest program around for tv, all the others try to be too pretty and just annoy you... apart from fbtv of course, which is part of the xawtv package. check it out in a console

Thank you acid, I now can get 1 channel very nicely but I cant get the other channels???

I added this to my .xawtv file

[one]
channel = 45.25 #this is the Mhz frequency of the station
key = 1
capture = no

[two]
channel = 55.25
key = 2

[three]
channel = 62.25
key = 3

[four]
channel = 175.25
key = 4

[five]
channel = 775.25
key = 5

is this correct why do I only have the one channel? and why is it when I change to "two" or "three" the picture is still that of "one"?

Thanks

Today when i started xawtv i dont get any channels any more. Last night i got one channel very well. Here is my actual config file. Can you see anything amiss:

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[global]
ratio = 4:3
freqtab = newzealand
pixsize = 128 x 96
pixcols = 1
jpeg-quality = 75
keypad-ntsc = no
keypad-partial = yes
osd = yes

# [Station name]
# capture = overlay | grabdisplay | on | off
# input = Television | Composite1 | S-Video | ...
# norm = PAL | NTSC | SECAM | ...
# channel = #
# fine = # (-128..+127)
# key = keysym | modifier+keysym
# color = #
# bright = #
# hue = #
# contrast = #

[defaults]
norm = PAL
input = Television
capture = over
color = 50%
bright = 50%
hue = 50%
contrast = 50%

[One]

channel = 45
key = 1
capture = off

[Three]

channel = 62.25
key = 3
capture = on

[Four]

channel = 175.25
key = 4
capture = on

[Prime]

channel = 775.25
key = 5
capture = on

[Two]

norm = PAL
channel = 55
fine = 25
key = 2

I managed to get one channel back but that is it I cannot change to the other channels I have tried everything the channels just wont change.

Help!

I have typed "dmesg" and got "tuner = tuner type not set" how could this be I get 1 channel. anyway I am trying to figure out from these readme's about how to insmod the tuner type in there. How do i do this in plain english? something like "insmod bttv.o card=38" when i type this i get bttv.o not found??? help...

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you would normally set it in /etc/modules.conf

alias char-major-81 bttv
options bttv card=xx

oh and the way you're insmodding it, you don't use the prefix for the object, just bttv, no .so.

I have added to the modules.conf this "options bttv card=38" this seems to have done nothing as when i type dmesg i get "tuner type type not set" and "frequency out of range". Help why wont it work. Sometimes I start xawtv and I get a perfect picture of one channel which seems to be random but I cant change it.

BTW why in fullscreen does it have a black border around the picture?

any suggestions on how to set my tuner?

Thanks

^Bump^

Try running "scantv". That should prompt you for what kind of card you have and what station table to use and then it will automatically scan all the channels for you.