[mythtv-users] Re: AMD64 and FC2 installation problems

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Sep 27 11:25:49 EDT 2004


On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:43:59AM -0700, Brad Fuller wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Before even considering myth, have you confirmed your video
> > drivers work under x86_64? If yes, which are you using (asking out
> > of personal interest).

> Thanks for the message. Are you refering to the video capture card?
> [lspci and dmesg moved to further below]
> But, I receive the following error when trying -p = 1 thru 8
> cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
> 
> cat: /dev/video0: Input/output error
> 
> Does this mean my ivtv is working ok?

Looks like it does not work. So before going into myth, you should
make sure you can at least capture a stream like above.

It would be good to join the ivtv-devel lists (Cc'ed and Reply-To set
to there) and help testing ivtv on x86_64.

> so, I have a PVR-250. I get the following after this: /sbin/lspci -v
> 
> 00:0a.0   Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>                Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250
>                Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 153
>                Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
>                Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> Doing a /bin/dmesg |grep ivtv also looked ok -- to me at least:
> 
> ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv: version 0.1.10 (0.1.10pre2-ck108k) loading
> ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.8-1.521 gcc-3.3
> ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
> ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
> ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
> ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card
> ivtv: Found an iTVC16 based chip
> ivtv: VIA PCI device: 0x0204 vendor: 0x1106
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[1],ok]
> tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
> saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[1],ok]
> msp34xx: ivtv version
> ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3445G-B8,ok]
> ivtv: Tuner Type 50, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 
> 0x00891615, Revision 0x00000000
> ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
> ivtv: Radio detected
> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
> ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams
> ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 16 131072 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
> ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 16 131072 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
> ivtv: Create stream 2 using 512 4096 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
> ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 16 131072 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
> ivtv: Create stream 4
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
> ivtv: Setting Tuner 50
> ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
> ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
> ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
> ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
> 

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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