[mythtv] Yet another newbie - major problems - seeks advice

[Steve Clark]

Hello, I've just recently fought through installing debian stable++
(debian stable plus 2.4.19 kernel plus unstable for alsa and most of the
things that are required for mythtv.)   I got it to build and the
database is full of listings, but I can't run mythtv itself.  When I run
it, my whole machine completely locks up and I have to hard-reset it.  I
re-built mythtv with debugging info, and ran it from gdb, and got the
same result.  I am running on a 900 mhz duron machine (K7S5A mobo) with
an audigy sound card.  My graphics card is an Asus V7700 Deluxe with the
Geforce2 GTS pro chipset (I think), and I am using the S-Video on it for
the video capture.  I have installed the latest version of the NVidia
drivers and rivatv for the v4l (xawtv displays S-video input ok, but the
avi capture doesn't seem to work - however without locking up the
machine - it just says its recording, and when I stop, there isn't a
file).  

When I run /usr/local/bin/mythtv, it says (up to the point where it dies
anyway):

----------------- begin mythtv terminal output -----------------

Probed: /dev/video - Composite
Probed: /dev/video - S-Video
Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
channel '0' has no tuner (composite)

----------------- end mythtv terminal output -------------------

Also, my /var/log/syslog had the following just before it dies (the
first part is when I did a 'modprobe rivatv card=10 debug=2', the second
part is what I'm guessing rivatv reported when I started mythtv):

-------------------- /var/log/syslog - part 1
---------------------------------------

Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: Video4Linux driver for NVIDIA
cards
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: Version 0.8.1
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: MMX processor extension detected
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: Identified your board as Asus
V7700 Deluxe
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: Attempting to load module saa7113h
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: PCI nVidia NV10 card detected
(GeForce2-GT
S [0x150], 64MB @ 0xC0000000)
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: I2C adapter driver for NVIDIA
cards
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: SAA7113H: video decoder chip found, chip
version:
0x11
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: chip registration requested: 38
(SAA7113H)
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: video decoder chip registered
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: i2c-core.o: client [SAA7113H] registered
to adapte
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: allocated YUV capture buffer (812
kb)
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: successfully requested IRQ 11
Nov 15 01:42:36 media kernel: rivatv: Video4Linux device driver
registered

------------------- /var/log/syslog part 2
-----------------------------------------

Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCGTUNER
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCSTUNER
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCGCAP
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCGCHAN
Nov 15 01:43:16 media last message repeated 2 times
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCSCHAN
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCGMBUF
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: allocated 3240 kb MMAP buffer
space
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: MMAP buffer available in user
space (3240
kb)
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCGCHAN
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCMCAPTURE: 0
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: capture palette changed: <invalid>
-> YUV4
20P
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: decoder output set to default UYVY
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: capture resolution changed:
352x288 -> 320
x320
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: starting video capture
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCMCAPTURE: 1
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCSYNC: 0
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCMCAPTURE: 0
Nov 15 01:43:16 media kernel: rivatv: VIDIOCSYNC: 1

---------------- end /var/log/syslog
-----------------------------------------------

Does anyone have any ideas where I should start looking to find my
problem.  Your advice will be much appreciated.

I should also mention, that I am currently just running on a computer
monitor - no S-Video output.  I just figured I'd get it all working at
my desk in my office before I moved down to the living room.  At some
point when its all working I plan to switch to TV output, but I just
don't like trying to read all this text from my TV screen.

Thanks,

Steve