scantv - "no stations" tv tuner trouble
 

Hi I recently purchased a KWorld KW-TV878RF PRO TV tuner (BT 878). My Mandrake 9.1 seems to detect it ok, but when I try scantv, it gives "no stations" to all of my channel. I tried configuring in X using DrakeTV. I tried XawTV as well, nothing but static.

I also have another TV tuner I tried (don't know the name), but it is also BT878, and it didn't work either.

So I bought an ATI TV VE, that seems to work ok.

Does anyone know why? Please help.

I noticed that KW-TV878RF is listed in the BTTV CARDLIST file. I'm in the NTSC US_Broadcast area. There's nothing in my modules.conf file that has to do with the TV tuner config.

TIA

you may need to read through the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video and look for the bttv stuff - read up on your card and see if you need to pass a 'tuner=' option to the bttv module.

Yup, that solved it. I had to go through the card one by one until I find the correct one.

Thanks.

:-) Congrats.

Which options???
 

Man.. Ive got the same problem.. tried to slove it for weeks...
Could you tell me which settingsdo did you use to make the Kworld 878 work with Linux?
Thanx!

I selected the KWorld 878RF card, and NTSC tuner in the settings list. I use Mandrake 9.1.

I'm not sure exactly which model your KWorld tv tuner card is. If that doesn't work, just go through each one at a time, one by one, until it works for you.

That's what I ended up doing.

...........what a mess!
 

Hi again.. I havent been able to correct the problem. my card is:
Kworld = KW-TV878RF
NTSC
Conexant 878A Tuner (which I havent been able to find in the options...
Pleaase help.. Iam getting desperate after trying and trying all the time!!! :(:(

I also have a Kworld card. I use card=78 and works fine. However, mine is on Pal, not ntsc

here's the line in modules.conf
You may need to change tuner= so it will be ntsc

Thanx!!! Ive already found the solution... I believe more than that it was a problem in mandrake update and autodetect for the cards tuner...
Surfing the web I found this wonder full tool:

http://www.mind.lu/~yg/ftvco/

which solved my problem, trying a multiple set of options until it actually worked!!! ;)
Thanx for helping!!!