[mythtv-users] MythTV and Fedora 7

[Owen Williams]

Hello,
  I'm struggling with two Myth installs:

o Fedora 7 on PPC (Mirror Drive Door Dual G4s)
o Fedora 7 on i386 (upgrade from fully working FC6)

This is probably better off as two emails...

The text on both systems in both mythfrontend and mythtv-setup on just
the front page don't show up but I can navigate (if that's the right
word) to different sections.  I don't think it's an OpenGL thing because
the PPC box doesn't have nivdia support.  I have freefont installed on
the i386 box but I can't tell if the fonts have been picked up.  These
are the fonts MySQL knows about:

+---------------------------------+--------------+
| value                           | data         |
+---------------------------------+--------------+
| OSDFont                         | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCCFont                       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDThemeFontSizeType            | default      | 
| OSDCC708DefaultFontType         | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSerifFont           | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSerifFont           | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSansSerifFont       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSansSerifFont       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CasualFont              | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CursiveFont             | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CapitalsFont            | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSerifItalicFont     | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSerifItalicFont     | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSansSerifItalicFont | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSansSerifItalicFont | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CasualItalicFont        | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CursiveItalicFont       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CapitalsItalicFont      | FreeMono.ttf | 
| ThemeFontSizeType               | small        | 
| QtFontSmall                     | 8            | 
| QtFontMedium                    | 12           | 
| QtFontBig                       | 21           | 
| OSDFont                         | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCCFont                       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDThemeFontSizeType            | default      | 
| OSDCC708DefaultFontType         | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSerifFont           | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSerifFont           | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSansSerifFont       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSansSerifFont       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CasualFont              | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CursiveFont             | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CapitalsFont            | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSerifItalicFont     | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSerifItalicFont     | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708MonoSansSerifItalicFont | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708PropSansSerifItalicFont | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CasualItalicFont        | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CursiveItalicFont       | FreeMono.ttf | 
| OSDCC708CapitalsItalicFont      | FreeMono.ttf | 
| ThemeFontSizeType               | default      | 
| QtFontSmall                     | 12           | 
| QtFontMedium                    | 16           | 
| QtFontBig                       | 25           | 
+---------------------------------+--------------+
44 rows in set (0.00 sec)

There are fonts specified in the xml's too but I don't know which are
responsible for the front page of the two apps.

Any one come up against this?

And DVB woes:

The good-ish: 

On the i386 box I had to go back to the first kernel and
create /etc/sysconfig/modules/:

#!/bin/sh

modprobe cx88-dvb
modprobe dvb-bt8xx

to get my Avermedia (awful card) and Winfast (good cards) to do anything
but now it works.

DVB seems broken in the latest kernel on both i386 and PPC.

The bad:

On the PPC box I have a WinTV Nova-T USB (Model 294):

lsusb:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 2040:7060 Hauppauge 

I've created a vanilla kernel 2.6.21.1 and latest clone of v4l-dvb.
I've used the various firmwares I could find.  I found a page saying
that I need these modules (/etc/sysconfig/modules/nova-t.modules):

#!/bin/sh

modprobe dvb-usb-nova-t-usb2
modprobe dvb-usb-dibusb-common
modprobe dvb-usb

This is the latest output from messages:

Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dib0700: loaded with support for 2 different
device-types
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: hde: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB
Cache, DMA
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: FW GET_VERSION length: -32
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: cold: 1
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in
cold state, will try to load a firmware
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file
'dvb-usb-dib0700-01.fw'
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dib0700: firmware started successfully.
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dvb-usb: found a 'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick' in
warm state.
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2
transport stream to the software demuxer.
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (Hauppauge
Nova-T Stick)
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: input: PowerMac Beep as /class/input/input5
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: ep 0 read error (status = -32)
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: I2C read failed on address 9
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: ep 0 read error (status = -32)
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: I2C read failed on address 40
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: ep 0 read error (status = -32)
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: I2C read failed on address 9
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dvb-usb: no frontend was attached by
'Hauppauge Nova-T Stick'
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: dvb-usb: Hauppauge Nova-T Stick successfully
initialized and connected.
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
dvb_usb_dib0700
Jun 18 17:44:59 tv1 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver
dvb_usb_nova_t_usb2

As you can see I end up without a frontend.  Can anyone tell where on
the driver cdrom I can find and extract the real firmware for the device
or give any other sage advice?

Sorry for the length of the email.  Hopefully the nuggets about the
needed modules for Avermedia and WinFast will be useful.

Thanks in advance.

Owen.

-- 
Owen Williams
williams at dmu.ac.uk
Does the Invisible Hand have an opposable thumb?