[mythtv-users] Problems with Pundit/FC2/PVR-350 & Jarod's guide

Jason potuncle at enjoyingeugene.com
Sat Oct 2 15:42:58 EDT 2004


I am having the same problems that mythtv at calibreassociates posted  
twice about. I have included his second message below. I also have a  
Pundit, running a fresh install of FC2, have a PVR-350,  and following  
Jarod's guide. The only difference between he and I is that I am not  
yet attempting to use the TV-out of the PVR-350.

The problems that I am having (which are the same as in the post below)  
are as follows:
	- When I do /bin/dmesg |grep ivtv, I am missing the following 3 lines:
		ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0
		ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
		ivtv: Registered v412 device, minor 224
	even though it looks like the PVR-350 is detected, and I see no errors  
listed.

	- When I do cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg and then mplayer  
/tmp/	test_capture.mpg, MPlayer crashes with the following message:
		MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: preinit_libvo

Does anyone have any ideas???

Thanks,
Jason

PREVIOUS POST FOLLOWS:

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posted by: mythtv at calibreassociates
subject: Problems w/ w4l2 & saa7127 on FC2
date: Sept 2, 2004

  [second post... please help! thx!]

I've run into two problems following Jarod's guide to install MythTV on  
a Pundit
Box w/ a PVR-350 running FC2. First, when I run:

  # /bin/dmesg |grep ivtv

I get the following output [snipped]:

  ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card
  ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
  saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
  tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
  ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
  ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023

The output is incomplete. I don't get the expected output from "tuner:"  
or from
"ivtv:" as illustrated in Jarod's guide.

I continued with the install anyway to try to determine where the  
problem is.
In testing the TV-Out connection I did the following:

  # /sbin/rmmod saa7127
  # /sbin/insmod saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=1 test_image=1

Which resulted in:

  insmod: can't read 'saa7127': No such file or directory

I continued the install a few steps further to see if the problem would  
manifest
again. So, after running:

  # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000
  # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4
  # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480
  # /usr/bin/ivtvctl -v input=3,output=1

I captured video, and tried to play it with mplayer.  Mplayer produced:

  No vidix driver name provided, probing available ones
  (-v option for details)! vo: X11 running at 1024x768
  with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0" => local display) Disabling DPMS
MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: preinit_libvo

I don't know enough about the inner-workings of Myth to know if these  
are all
related to one another, but I would assume the problem begins with v4l2  
not
getting registered.

  SYSTEM SETUP:
  - ASUS Pundit w/ PVR-350
  - Fedora Core 2 [fresh install]
  - atrpms-kickstart-23-1.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm
  - kernel: 2.6.7-1.456_4
  - sis_drv.o_4.3.0_gcc3_current.tar.gz
  -  
kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.7-1.456_4.rhfc2.at-0.1.10 
-41_pre2_ck104f.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
  - ivtv-0.1.10-41_pre2_ck104f.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm

CONFIG FILES:
[/etc/X11/xorg.conf] snipped
  Section "Module"
  Load "v4l"
  Load "dbe"
  Load "extmod"
  Load "fbdevhw"
  Load "glx"
  Load "record"
  Load "freetype"
  Load "type1"
  Load "dri"
  EndSection
  ...
  Section "Device"
  Identifier "Videocard0"
  Driver "sis"
  VendorName "Silicon Integrated Systems"
  BoardName "SiS 630"
  Option "XvOnCRT2" "true"
  Option "ForceCRT2Type" "SVIDEO"
  Option "CHTVOverscan" "true"
  VideoRam 65536
  EndSection

[/etc/modules.conf]
  # ivtv modules setup
  alias char-major-81 videodev
  alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
  options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 mpg_buffers=90
  options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=1 test_image=1
  options tuner type=2 # NTSC tuner
  options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
  add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
  add above ivtv ivtv-fb

Thank you in advance!



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