TV tuner misdetection in linux 2.6 v4l
The tuner of my TV card is apparently being misdetected by linux
2.6's video4linux drivers.
The tail of `grep -ih 'tuner:.*type' /var/log/syslog*` makes me
suspicious:
Apr 18 09:15:40 chilia kernel: tuner: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw]
Apr 18 09:43:30 chilia kernel: tuner: type already set (8)
The first entry above (Apr 18 09:15:40) is for my linux 2.6 boot.
Here the tuner is detected as type=5 or Philips PAL_BG. This
gives bad video: undersaturated colors and wrong TV channels. I
suspect the "PAL_BG" has something to do with it.
Our signal is NTSC, so I think the second entry above (Apr 18
09:43:30), when I rebooted to my trusty linux 2.4 kernel, shows
the correct tuner type. Tuner type=8 is Temic NTSC (4036 FY5).
This option (forced via /etc/modules.conf and friends) gives the
"right" colors and TV channels.
Is there a way to force the type=8 parameter to the 'tuner'
module. Under linux 2.4 I have the following in
/etc/modules.conf, which is apparently being ignored by
linux 2.6:
options tuner type=8 debug=1
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