[mythtv-users] /sbin/modprobe ivtv -- not working
Hamish Tweedie
hamish at hamishtweedie.com
Sun Dec 21 17:25:50 EST 2003
Sorry .. being new to MythTv/Linux I'm a little confused here as to
what Darrick is saying about extracting and placing the Hauppage
drivers. I have used the Perl extraction script to extract and place
them in a relevant location ... is there something else I need to do
other than this
(I presume these are the firmware files you talk about Darrick?). If not
could somebody supply a more detailed explanation of where things have
gone wrong with the ivtv install for the current ATRPMS Kernel ...
Many thanks in advance ..
Hamish
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:20:08 +0100
> From: Ramon Roca <Ramon.Roca at XCombo.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] /sbin/modprobe ivtv -- not working
>
>
> ok, thanks
>
> El Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:13:43 -0800 (PST)
> Darrick Hartman <ricko73 at yahoo.com> va escriure:
>
> DH > People...these issues are unrelated! (see my note
> DH > below)
> DH >
> DH > --- Ramon Roca <Ramon.Roca at XCombo.com> wrote:
> DH > > Not sure, since you are using a newer version than
> DH > > mine, however, by the erors that you are reporting
> DH > > (look comments below)... are you sure that you have
> DH > > the devices defined?
> DH > > try "ls /dev/diveo*", be sure that you have many
> DH > > video* there...
> DH > > If not are there, try something like this:
> DH >
> DH > You do not need to have the nodes created for the
> DH > device to be detected by linux. The device itself
> DH > will show up in /proc/pci and as a result be shown
> DH > when you type 'lspci -v'. Having nodes for the device
> DH > just allows you to contact the device from userspace.
> DH > If you're using devfs, you don't need to create nodes
> DH > manually. The nodes are created when you get the
> DH > modules to load correctly. (if you're not using devfs,
> DH > then yes you would have to create the nodes)
> DH >
> DH > What modprobe is saying by 'device not found' is that
> DH > it could not fine a chipset/device that belonged to
> DH > this driver. The ivtv module requires the bin file
> DH > from the firmware to properly work.
> DH >
> DH > Darrick
> DH >
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:08:40 +0100
> From: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Fedora or RH9.0 for a new Myth
> installation ?
> To: pvrman at xemaps.com, Discussion about mythtv
> <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <20031221120840.GD3861 at neu.nirvana>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:07:01PM -0700, pvrman at xemaps.com wrote:
> > I didn't quite understand what you meant by better 3rd party support in
> > RH9. Are you saying that there are more hardware that is compatible with
> > RH9 than with Fedora ?
> >
> > Or is it that there are more applications available today for RH9 than
> > for Fedora ? Is RH9 and Fedora binary compatible ? If so, the
> > applicaiton availability shouldn't be an issue, right ?
>
> There are more 3rd party repos doing RH9 than FC1.
>
> > I see your point with future support and understand that there will be
> > more support in Fedora going forward, but how does RH9 compare with FC1
> > as it stands TODAY ? Are they the same or would you sat RH9 has more
> > support ?
>
> I'd consider them currently equal. Can't make a guess for the future,
> many people have stayed at RH9 because they don't like the new fast
> pace model of the FC series, another chunk is pleased to see fresher
> apps in FC.
>
> It all really depends on your application domain. For mythtv it won't
> be really important, I guess.
> --
> Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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> Message: 17
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 13:35:28 +0100
> From: "Philippe C. Cattin" <cattin at vision.ee.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cannot exit mythbrowser
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <3FE59390.1060607 at vision.ee.ethz.ch>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> Mike,
>
> > I am having problem with mythbrowser. I can browse sites, but when I hit
> > escape to get back to the mythtv main menu, mythbrowser freezes. It will not
> > allow me to escape the bookmarks menu. I have to kill mythfrontend and
> > restart it. Am I missing something? I am running mythtv-0.13 and
> > mythbrowser-0.13.
>
> focus problem? maybe the focus gets lost after you exit the browser.
>
> > Also, is there a way to adjust the font sizes etc? They are really large but
> > I don't want to change the font sizes of everything in mythtv...
>
> you can change the default zoom factor in the setup screen. this in fact
> changes the font-size. while browsing you can increase/decrease the font
> size in the popup-menu (print screen key).
>
> Philippe
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 08:42:33 -0500
> From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Shuttle SK41G sound problem
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <200312210842.33933.jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On Sunday 21 December 2003 04:35, Steven Marcotte wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 22:07, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >
> > > You really should be able to use the same volume levels as mplayer. When
> you
> > > play something with mplayer, does it output to /dev/dsp or /dev/adsp? Try
> > > configuring Myth to output to /dev/dsp if that's the default.
> >
> > mplayer is using /dev/dsp as output.
> >
> > > Finally, if you can try testing with XawTV in the following manner: bring
> up
> > > xawtv and a mixer. Watch TV with xawtv. While watching, set your Master
> &
> > > PCM to comfortable levels. Now, in an xterm, enter the command 'aplay
> > > /dev/dsp' and leave it running. You *should* hear doubled audio... one
> audio
> > > stream with the video and one a tad behind. It may not be overly
> noticeable.
> > > Now, while that's going on, mute the 'CD' mixer slider. You should get a
> > > single audio stream which may be a little behind the video. If you don't,
> > > you need to make sure that the 'CD' input is set as the capture source,
> and
> > > that the capture volume is turned up to an appropriate level. On some
> > > mixers, 'mute' is a simple toggle, and the capture level is simply the
> level
> > > of the selected capture source (here, 'CD'). On other mixers, 'mute' sets
> > > the level of the selected source to zero, and there is a separate slider
> for
> > > the capture level.
> >
> > OK, if I open xawtv and enter the command 'aplay /dev/dsp' and adjust
> > the levels in aumix as follows:
> >
> > Volume: 70
> > PCM: 70
> > CD: 100
> > IGain: 100
> >
> > The volume level is fine, there is no distortion, and there are two
> > audio tracks. If I set the CD input to 0, one audio track goes away and
> > I am left with on audio track slightly out of sync.
> >
> > If I quit aplay, aumix, and xawtv and start MythTV with the same levels,
> > I get the same result, loud and distorted. I can adjust the audio
> > levels down, and the volume will get lower, but the distortion remains.
> > In fact if I set the levels in aumix as follows, the sound is very quiet
> > but still distorted.
>
> What do you mean 'the same levels'? Depending on your settings,
> mythfrontend
> may adjust your audio output levels on startup.
>
> >
> > Volume: 20
> > PCM: 20
> > CD: 0
> > IGain: 2
>
> PCM & IGain are most likely to affect distortion.
>
> >
> > I can play music from Myth Music with the same levels as the xawtv
> > experiment, and it plays fine.
> >
> > ALSA registers two DSP devices for my via82xx sound card, /dev/dsp and
> > /dev/adsp. I reran the xawtv experiment with for /dev/adsp, with the
> > following levels:
> >
> > Volume: 70
> > PCM: 70
> > CD: 100
> > IGain: 100
> >
> > The output is loud and distorted, there is too much distortion to tell
> > if there is two audio tracks. If I set the IGain level to 0 the
> > distortion goes away and you get a normal sound output in real-time from
> > the CD channel.
> >
> > I thought this is great, finally I'm able to reproduce the problem
> > outside of MythTV. The first thing I did was double check to make sure
> > that neither the Myth front-end or back-end was configured to use
> > /dev/adsp. But as luck would have it, MythTV was configured to use
> > /dev/dsp for capture and playback; lsof verified that this was the case.
> >
> > The via82xx chipset is suppose to support full-duplex mode. I have run
> > the gamut of related module parameters with no success. But shouldn't a
> > TV recording be fine regardless of weather or not my soundcard supports
> > full-duplex? lsof reports that the only process accessing /dev/dsp is
> > the MythTV back-end, and that is in read-only mode.
>
> Is this while watching LiveTV? If so, mythfrontend should also have
> /dev/dsp
> open; if it doesn't, then are you sure* that mythfrontend is configured
> to
> use /dev/dsp for TV playback? There are 2 places in the frontend setup
> where
> this is configured -- 1 for mythmusic & one for TV playback. When
> changing
> settings you must continue through all the screens until the end, or the
> changes do not get applied. Based on your observations above, it sure
> sounds
> like mythfrontend is playing through /dev/adsp.
>
> Beyond that, I don't see anything else you've missed.
>
> Good luck,
>
> JAC
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 19
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:45:02 +0100
> From: "Michael Schmidt" <crashedpixels at gmx.de>
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Yet Another PVR350 TV-Out Question
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <JMEHLCOBGIMLONGAMKKOKEFPCEAA.crashedpixels at gmx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> > > So if I want to use anything beside live TV (transcoding,
> > > mplayer) if have to use the TV out of another graphics card.
> > > And this would suck because the quality of the PVR350 is
> > > pretty impressive... Or is there something I am missing?
>
> Chris wrote:
> > Recently, I asked about an mplayer patch that works with the PVR350 TVOUT
> > and tmk answered with the following which helpmed me: [snip]
> >
> > The patch worked for me! However, I only played back DVDs so far. I
> > don't know if any other formats work (they might).
>
> Thank you for your reply, Chris. I switched back to using the TV out of
> my
> GF4 though (what a pitty). I'm holding my thumbs that someday we'll be
> able
> to get PVR350 TV-Out for all aspects of MythTV.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:56:58 +0100
> From: "Michael Schmidt" <crashedpixels at gmx.de>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Automatic Shutdown: Backend never idles?
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <JMEHLCOBGIMLONGAMKKOGEGACEAA.crashedpixels at gmx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hello List,
>
> with delight I noticed that MythTV 0.13 now supports automatic
> shutdown/wakeup. I installed nvram-wakeup, setup my backend to shutdown
> after idling for 600 seconds. But it just won't go to sleep...
>
> While still playing with the controls I once got "I'm idle now...
> shutdown
> will occur in 60 seconds" in my mythbackend.log. But now it just won't go
> to
> sleep again.
>
> I'm running backend and frontend on the same box. Do I have to quit the
> frontend for the backend to become idle? Any advice?
>
>
> Rock on,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:25:25 -0500
> From: Doug Larrick <doug at ties.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV card, what to upgrade next?
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Message-ID: <20031221152525.GG3989 at deckard.doug.ties.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> On 12/20/03 22:47:45, Art Morales wrote:
> > Now the question is, what is the best upgrade I can make to ensure
> > smooth playback of HD streams? I'm torn between a P4 2.4 - 2.6
> > (800mhz FSB) or a newer nvidia card... any suggestions?
>
> IMHO processor will make more difference than video card, UNLESS your
> card doesn't support XVideo (Xv) extension.
>
> Run something like gkrellm and see if the processor's pegged.
>
> -Doug
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> Message: 22
> Date: 21 Dec 2003 11:23:09 -0500
> From: "Jeff \"Muddy\" Waters" <mythtv at muddysmind.com>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] no /dev/video device in Gentoo, help
> To: mythtv-users <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <1072023789.18896.7.camel at corsair>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Greetings fellow Gentoo users.
>
> I'm dying here.
>
> I just switched this week from redhat 7.2 on my server to gentoo
> gs-sources (since it's a smp server) and for the life of me can't get
> ivtv modules to load.
>
> So upon doing some checking found the machine does see the pvr-250 card.
> When I run # cat /proc/pci
>
> <!------------------ Begin Code ----------------->
> Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
> Multimedia video controller: PCI device 4444:0016 (Internext
> Compression Inc) (rev 1).
> IRQ 11.
> Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=8.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000 [0xd7ffffff].
> <!--------------------End Code --------------->
>
> However when I check /dev there is NO video listed.
>
> I doubt I'll be able to load ivtv modules if there is no video device in
> /dev... any ideas how to fix this?
> I've never seen this happen before.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> - Jeff
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 23
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:40:17 +0100
> From: Jelle Kalf <jelle at kalf.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] no /dev/video device in Gentoo, help
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <20031221174017.2cea84df.jelle at kalf.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Jeff,
>
> http://epia.kalf.org/
>
> try the howto, it's quite clear on how to compile and load the ivtv
> module.
>
>
> On 21 Dec 2003 11:23:09 -0500
> "Jeff \"Muddy\" Waters" <mythtv at muddysmind.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings fellow Gentoo users.
> >
> > I'm dying here.
> >
> > I just switched this week from redhat 7.2 on my server to gentoo
> > gs-sources (since it's a smp server) and for the life of me can't get
> > ivtv modules to load.
> >
> > So upon doing some checking found the machine does see the pvr-250 card.
> > When I run # cat /proc/pci
> >
> > <!------------------ Begin Code ----------------->
> > Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
> > Multimedia video controller: PCI device 4444:0016 (Internext
> > Compression Inc) (rev 1).
> > IRQ 11.
> > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=128.Max Lat=8.
> > Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000 [0xd7ffffff].
> > <!--------------------End Code --------------->
> >
> > However when I check /dev there is NO video listed.
> >
> > I doubt I'll be able to load ivtv modules if there is no video device in
> > /dev... any ideas how to fix this?
> > I've never seen this happen before.
> >
> > Thanks all.
> >
> > - Jeff
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.12
> GAT d+ s+:+ a- C++ UL+++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+ o- K- w
> O M- V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5+ X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI-- D+
> G++ e h-- r++ y+++
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 24
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:45:49 +0100
> From: Jelle Kalf <jelle at kalf.org>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] epia / gentoo / mythtv / hw mpeg working
> partially!!
> To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <20031221174549.062596a4.jelle at kalf.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Jep,
>
> I got around to testing it today. It's up and running at my end. I don't
> want to use it as playback yet, because it's very poor in quality. It
> stutters a lot still, but I have the CPU usage down to like less then 40%
> when running mythtv. At first it was over 100% cpu usage!!
>
> http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=49053&STARTPAGE=1
>
> what I did was:
> Follow the blade5 wiki, until the kernel building.
> download and patch the kernel to 2.4.23-epia1 then follow the
> instructions on the site of Ivor for the last patch and get the kernel up
> and running.
>
> After that I followed Ivor's howto on getting xfree compiled and running.
> (don't forget to follow Ivor's libddmpeg instructions after that).
>
>
> Jelle
>
> --
> echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.12
> GAT d+ s+:+ a- C++ UL+++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+ o- K- w
> O M- V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5+ X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI-- D+
> G++ e h-- r++ y+++
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 25
> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:57:19 +0100
> From: "Michael Schmidt" <crashedpixels at gmx.de>
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Automatic Shutdown: Backend never idles?
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Message-ID: <JMEHLCOBGIMLONGAMKKOMEGBCEAA.crashedpixels at gmx.de>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> > I'm running backend and frontend on the same box. Do I have to quit the
> > frontend for the backend to become idle? Any advice?
> Ok, I figured it out myself. The backend is (presumably) never going to
> idle
> on it's own. But once a frontend is started and quit again it will become
> idle immediatly.
>
> Rock on,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
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