[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV Output

[Curtis Wood]

Hi there,

  it doesnt look like you have anything extrordinary here - I've got the
250, and using the ivtv driver which screws up stometimes (or myth does)
but havent tried the ivtv-fb - never had my system lock up like your
talking about... Out of common since, since everything on your list is
supported under linux, I would guess that it is either the ivtv-fb
driver (kernel level, could lock the system up), or the motherboard -
form my experience with Linux the kernel will handle most hicups from
bad drivers, if you have crazy stuff like this happening (especially out
of the blue, even a few seconds/minutes later) I'd be willing to bet it
is your mother board/chip set on the mb....

Curtis


On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:56, Bill Mackintosh wrote:

> I have built a system around RedHat's Fedora Core 1 and followed
> Jarod's page at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ and have succeeded in
> getting MythTV to work on the PC.  Everytime I  follow the directions
> for enabling the ivtv-fb output at
> http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-print.php?page=TvOutHowto I can compile
> the driver (I have used ivtv-031125A-0.12, ivtv-031125A and
> decoder-alpha-311003A versions) and install it, and can get MythTV to
> output the video to the television, however the mythfrontend process
> (or possibly the entire OS) locks up after approximately 15-20
> seconds, faster if I change channels (using external receiver
> w/appropriate channel changing perl script specified in MythTV setup)
> or rewind/FF the video.
> 
> When compiling the ivtv-fb driver, I get a couple of "#warning Using
> temporary hack for missing I2C driver-ID for" error messages, one for
> saa7114 and one for tveeprom.c.  I have also seen the onscreen error
> message in the terminal window while viewing the logs"warning: cannot
> reserve video memory at 0x15000000 (not absolutely sure of the error #
> there, sorry!)
> 
> Since MythTV works just fine w/out the ivtv-fb driver installed, I'm
> fairly confident this is the culprit.  W/out the TV output, the system
> is virtually useless to me since I don't want to watch TV on a CRT.
> 
> I am a new linux user, basically got into it just to get MythTV setup
> and running.  I am very versed in DOS/Windows however, and am willing
> to learn Linux! :)
> 
> I've tried to include as much system info as I can below.  Any help
> you can offer in getting this working will be most appreciated!
> 
> PC Specs
> BioStar M7VKG motherboard
> Athlon 1.2GHz CPU
> 2 x 256MB PC 133MHz memory modules (for a total of 512MB onboard)
> Visiontek GEForce 3 TI200 AGP graphics card
> Hauppauge PVR-350
> Sohoware 10/100 NIC
> Soundblaster Live Value! soundcard (As a side question, is this
> actually necessary since the PVR-350 is doing all the
> encoding/decoding of the audio?)
> Maxtor 20GB ATA100 master drive (root, boot and swap partitions)
> Western Digital 80GB ATA133 slave drive (mounted as /d_hdd and will be
> used as video storage drive if I can get MythTV working correctly with
> the video output)
> 16X DVD-ROM drive
> 3 1/2" floppy drive
>  
> Software Specs
> Running RedHat Fedora Core 1 running custom kernel
> 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl_27 as specified on Jarod's site.
> Using OSS as sound module, not ALSA
> Have updated via apt-get to ALL latest modules/drivers.  No other
> updates available.
> Running mythtv .13 + all add on modules
> 
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