Cannot get a signal with xawtv or tvtime

shazen27 · 01-29-2009, 08:32 PM

I am running Fedora 10. I've installed xawtv 3.95 as well as tvtime 1.02.2 through the Add/Remove Software.

Unfortunately I have no idea what the brand of my tuner is. I bought it on the internet about 5 years ago, and the box didn't have a brand name. The instructions were also written in very poor english, however the win driver was called easytv. I do know its BT878.

$ modprobe bttv
$dmesg
bttv0: unloading
bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:02.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf46fe000
bttv0: using: Modular Technology MM201/MM202/MM205/MM210/MM215 PCTV, bt878 [card=23,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=003fffff [init]
tveeprom 1-0050: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-6)?
bttv0: Modtec: Unknown TunerString:
bttv0: tuner type=11
bttv0: i2c: checking for Bt832 @ 0x88... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for Bt832 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner' 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner-simple 1-0060: creating new instance
tuner-simple 1-0060: type set to 11 (Alps TSBB5)
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 27000000 .. ok
bttv0: timeout: drop=175 irq=510013/510014, risc=14280024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: timeout: drop=189 irq=510060/510061, risc=143fe024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 27000000 .. ok
bttv0: timeout: drop=203 irq=510169/510170, risc=14280024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: timeout: drop=217 irq=510216/510217, risc=31b09024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 27000000 .. ok
bttv0: timeout: drop=250 irq=538453/538454, risc=1425e024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: timeout: drop=264 irq=538500/538501, risc=31b31024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: timeout: drop=278 irq=538547/538548, risc=1425e024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=538594/538595, risc=31b31024, bits: HSYNC FDSR
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539077/539078, risc=31bc033c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539080/539081, risc=31bc0344, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539082/539083, risc=142b537c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539084/539085, risc=31bc034c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539086/539087, risc=142b536c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539088/539089, risc=31bc038c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539090/539091, risc=142b536c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539092/539093, risc=31bc0354, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539235/539236, risc=31bc0434, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539238/539239, risc=31bc038c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539240/539241, risc=142b534c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
bttv0: timeout: drop=292 irq=539242/539243, risc=31bc0354, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW
bttv0: reset, reinitialize
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).

For Xawtv:

$ xawtv device -dev/video0
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686)
xinerama 0: 1440x900+0+0

This launches the xawtv app, but all I get is a black and white static screen and no sound.

I've changed my settings to:
NTSC, Television, us-cable, and stereo sound

For tvtime:

$ tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/Steve/.tvtime/tvtime.xml

The tvtime app launches fine. When I scan the channels I only get two, and they picture is good but there is no sound. However the tv thats running off the same cable gets approximately 65 channels and I can't figure out why its only picking up those too.

Can anyone help out with this?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 01-29-2009, 10:53 PM

Use the command: lspci if that doesn't return enough information do: lspci -vv (that's 2 v's).

shazen27 · 01-30-2009, 07:13 AM

Ok, here's what I got:

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a3)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)
03:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 01)
03:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
03:02.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
03:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
03:04.0 Modem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4212 v.90 56k modem

And the lspci -vv for the two Brooktree Co Bt878:

03:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
Region 0: Memory at f46fe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: bttv
Kernel modules: bttv

03:02.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3
Region 0: Memory at f46ff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

Let me know if you need more than just that and I'll post all the output.