[ivtv-users] Still pulling my hair out....

[Michael Cree]

Brian Fertig wrote:

> Basically I got everything setup.  It found all of my channels and 
> signal strengths.  I did what the IVTV documentation said and did a 
> cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/bla.mpg
>
> When I check the file its 0 bytes..   I have ran the ivtv tools and 
> set it to a channel and  forced tuner0.  What am I doing wrong here? 

I suggest you post the output of dmesg including everything from the 
line with "ivtv: Start initialization" to the line with "ivtv: End 
initialization".  That should point to any problems in ivtv driver 
initialisation.

Michael.