Getting my TV Card to work is proving troublesome

[tommo]

Hi there, I am having a spot of bother trying to get my tv card to work. I am on Debian Etch (Kernel: 2.6.18-4-686).

tommo@tomsbox:~$ lspci | grep video
03:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)

I have done a fair bit of searching on google about this and read that i should install ivtv module. I did this with module assistant:

module-assistant auto-install ivtv

And lsmod gives:

tommo@tomsbox:~$ lsmod | grep ivtv
ivtv                  155344  0
firmware_class          9600  2 cx25840,ivtv
i2c_algo_bit            8424  1 ivtv
cx2341x                10308  1 ivtv
tveeprom               13840  1 ivtv
i2c_core               19680  7 wm8775,cx25840,tuner,ivtv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_i801
videodev               21120  1 ivtv
v4l1_compat            12036  2 ivtv,videodev
v4l2_common            20448  5 cx25840,tuner,ivtv,cx2341x,videodev

I also downloaded some firmware, unpacked and moved it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware
(this was also something i came across while searching on google)

I guess I am a tad lost now, I have tried just firing up tvtime with no luck:

tommo@tomsbox:~$ tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/tommo/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
/home/tommo/.tvtime/stationlist.xml: No existing PAL station list "custom".
videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument

tvtime does start but just says:

ivtv: invalid argument
cannot open capture device /dev/video0


Sorry to bombard you with all this information, but I'm unsure as what to do. Thanks for any help

[tommo]

For those interested, please see part of a solution here