Sorry to bitch..... but I'm desperate for help

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 05:06:27 UTC 2006


On 9/26/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been to the following for help with this problem
>
> - fedora-list (mailing list)
> - video4linux (mailing list)
> - #fedora (irc)
> - #v4l (irc)
> - #mythtv-users (irc)
>
> I've filed the following bug reports:
>
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197424
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206829
>
> To summarise, my tv card gets no sound with any 2.6.17.* Fedora
> kernel. When I installed FC5, things works flawlessly.
>
> The following factors make fixing this problem ASAP a big deal for me
>
> 1) This is my only cable tv viewing device
> 2) At some point some upgrade, wounded my binary blob Nvidia drivers,
> which my system had come to rely on. Now everything is sluggish, and
> colors on my my PVR software, MythTV are all messed up.
> 3) Most importantly to me, FC6 is coming. And I'm pretty sure I won't
> be having any 2.6.17 kernels in it. If I can't fix this problem....I
> will miss out on FC6 for who knows how long, and I've been hearing
> good things about it.
>
> The top two pieces of advice I have received so far, and attempted are to:
> 1) use v4lctl to verify all settings on the card
> 2) compile v4l from http://linuxtv.org/
>
> Niether has worked.
>
> While I do not expect someone here to just tell me exactly what to do
> to fix the problem, I am hoping you all can advise me on how best to
> go about finding a solution.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Arthur Pemberton
>

Adding 'options msp3400 standard=32' to modprobe solved the problem.

Thanks to Jay Cliburn for his help (on and off list).

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