Pinnacle PCTV Help

[DRJ]

I have a Pinnacle PCTV card that worked correctly when running from the CD and after a debian type installation, but before configuring my ethernet interface. Now I get static on each channel even when I configure xawtv correctly. Here are the relevent messages from dmesg:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
bttv: driver version 0.7.107 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo
KT266/A/333]
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0c.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0
xe9002000
bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 1
1bd:0012
bttv0: using: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Ra) [card=39,autodetec
ted]
i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=5 info="NTSC / mono" radio=no
bttv0: using tuner=33
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda98
55,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
i2c-core.o: driver i2c tda9887 driver registered.
tda9887: chip found @ 0x86
i2c-core.o: client [tda9887] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](p
os. 0).
i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
tuner: chip found @ 0xc0
tuner: type set to 33 (MT2032 universal)
MT2032: Companycode=4d54 Part=04 Revision=04
i2c-core.o: client [MT2032 universal] registered to adapter [bt
848 #0](pos. 1).
MT2032: Companycode=4d54 Part=04 Revision=04
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
mt2032: re-init PLLs by LINT
mt2032: re-init PLLs by LINT
MT2032 Fatal Error: PLLs didn't lock.
mt2032: re-init PLLs by LINT
mt2032: re-init PLLs by LINT
MT2032 Fatal Error: PLLs didn't lock.
bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).

Can anyone tell me if the problem lies here? If so, how can I correct it? Thanks!

[pau1knopp]

The details are a little sketchy but I'll give it a whirl, since I'm using a pinnacle pctv card when booting from CD as well as a hard drive install.

Since you know things work from the CD distro, you may want to boot the cd distribution again, setup your channels, etc. and save the working .xawtv config file somewhere that you can get to it later.

Copy that file to your hard drive install home directory, and you'll have all your channels, correct input settings, etc. Everything should work fine. If not, give your results and more detail.

Good luck.

Paul

[nram]

You can also try kwintv.