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[Stephen Cullum <question63757@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #63757 on Me TV:
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I have just installed a pcHDTV card HD 5500 into my desktop computer. I am trying to get Me-TV to do its initial scan of channels. None are being detected. I am on Bright House cable tv in central florida USA. I split the cable with one end going to my modem which stills work and the other end to the card. I am using a Gigabyte mother board GA-MA78GM-S2H  with a integrated graphic card. The card is as follows.

 VGA controller
Model Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
Vender ATI Technologies Inc (Giga-byte Technology)
Connection PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)
 
I tried TVTime in the console which gave this error message.
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/stephen/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.

I removed TvTime as I really want to use Me-Tv .

I ran dmesg and cut this out of the output.

dmesg part for tv card

[   37.748272] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
[   37.847747] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   38.247975] cx88/2: cx2388x MPEG-TS Driver Manager version 0.0.6 loaded
[   38.248027] cx88[0]: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47,autodetected]
[   38.248030] cx88[0]: TV tuner type 64, Radio tuner type -1
[   38.259109] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[   38.300861] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 3545 MBytes.
[   38.300887] [fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[   38.301063] [fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[   38.301085] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.47.3 [Feb 25 2008] on minor 0
[   38.401780] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x 8802 Driver Manager
[   38.401821] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.2[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[   38.401834] cx88[0]/2: found at 0000:03:06.2, rev: 5, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfb000000
[   38.407528] cx88/0: cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.6 loaded
[   38.407589] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[   38.407598] cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:03:06.0, rev: 5, irq: 20, latency: 32, mmio: 0xf9000000
[   38.474100] parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[   38.474158] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[   38.515725] tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (cx88[0])
[   38.515742] tda9887 1-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
[   38.515744] tuner 1-0043: type set to tda9887
[   38.517663] tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
[   38.517673] tuner-simple 1-0061: type set to 64 (LG TDVS-H06xF)
[   38.517674] tuner 1-0061: type set to LG TDVS-H06xF
[   38.517676] tuner-simple 1-0061: type set to 64 (LG TDVS-H06xF)
[   38.517678] tuner 1-0061: type set to LG TDVS-H06xF
[   38.548707] cx88/2: cx2388x dvb driver version 0.0.6 loaded
[   38.548711] cx88/2: registering cx8802 driver, type: dvb access: shared
[   38.548714] cx88[0]/2: subsystem: 7063:5500, board: pcHDTV HD5500 HDTV [card=47]
[   38.548716] cx88[0]/2: cx2388x based DVB/ATSC card
[   38.851445] cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[   38.851464] cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
[   38.854239] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 0 proto 2

I am no guru but I think my Kernel is detecting the card and loading the correct drivers.
The vender says that xine works with their card and if I understand correctly Me-Tv uses xine for its video display. 
I have tried all of the cable scan selections offered by Me-Tv with out generating a valid conf. file. No channels detected. Is their some way I can check if my connection is good for the cable? I am not sure if there is a command line tool I could use. Also for  US American cable what selection should I use? I have searched the net  and have not found an answer yet. I am using  Ubuntu Hardy AMD64. Can I use the integrated video card or do I need another video card? If any one can help I would be appreciative.



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