[mythtv-users] HELP!!! Blank screen with PVR-150

[Joe Garcia]

I captured the output of "mythfrontend -v all" because I only get a
black screen and an unresponsive computer if I try to view any video
in mythtv.  I can record just fine.  I can view the mythtv recorded
files with mplayer with sound.  I can do a mplayer /dev/video0 and
that works fine video an all.  LiveTV or trying to watch any of the
recorded video in mythtv results in a race condition that denys all
access to the compter and only a hard reset will bring it out of this
race condition.

Htere is what I see repeated over and over from the "mythfrontend -v
all" capture


2005-08-28 16:50:28.985 audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 3072 want 4096
2005-08-28 16:50:28.985 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-08-28 16:50:28.989 audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 3072 want 4096
2005-08-28 16:50:28.989 Broadcasting free space avail
2005-08-28 16:50:28.993 audio waiting for buffer to fill: have 3072 want 4096
2005-08-28 16:50:28.993 Broadcasting free space avail

more info to help you out


Suse 9.3

Animal:~ # lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A]
Chipset Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus
Reference Card (rev 01)
0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live!
EMU10k1 (rev 07)
0000:00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game
Port (rev 07)
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1 Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102
[Rhine-II] (rev 74)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34
[GeForce FX 5500] (rev a1)

Animal:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : AMD Sempron(tm)   2800+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 1993.202
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 3948.54

Animal:~ # free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        516008     383584     132424          0      45152     192376
-/+ buffers/cache:     146056     369952
Swap:       524280          0     524280

Animal:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i myth
myththemes-0.18.1-12
libmyth-0.18.1-12
mythtv-frontend-0.18.1-12
libmyth-devel-0.18.1-12
mythtv-0.18.1-12
mythtv-backend-0.18.1-12
mythtv-setup-0.18.1-12

hope you guys can help.... I am damn close.