[mythtv-users] Begging for help with live TV freeze
bobnvic at everestkc.net
bobnvic at everestkc.net
Tue Dec 9 11:44:19 EST 2003
Patrick E. McKnight wrote:
> Alan Snyder wrote:
> > A number of people, myself included, have reported
> > frontend freezes in live TV, the symptom being frozen
> > picture and sound, the frontend spitting out "Waited 2
> > seconds for data to become available, waiting
> > again...", and the backend seemingly working normally.
> >
snip
>
> Alan,
>
> Let me see if I can help you here. I too had the screen freezes
> but I
> did the following and now it no longer freezes. First, I
> originally
> compiled bttv into the kernel - big mistake. I'm using 2.6.0-
> test11 on
> gentoo and by recompiling the bttv, btaudio, etc as modules, I was
> able
> to control the driver configs in the modules.conf (or whatever
> file you
> use to control these things).
>
> BTW, I followed the directions from:
>
> http://www.linuxlogin.com/linux/ati_tv.php
>
> and in particular I used the following (since I was using the ATI
> card
> myself):
>
> alias char-major-81 bttv
> options bttv card=1 autoload=0 radio=0
> post-install bttv insmod tuner type=2
>
> I now have some other niggling problems but I am getting close to
> having
> a full-working and stable MythTV setup. So my scientific (!) wild
> ass
> guess is the kernel drivers. Have you tried to load them at boot
> rather
> than compiling them in?
>
I have a PVR-250 and a bttv card in my system. The "waiting for data"
problems occur with the PVR-250 card while watching LiveTV for me,
but I suppose it could still be a bttv driver problem. I'm using
Mandrake 9.1 with the bttv drivers compiled in by Mandrake. I'll
try messing with the ivtv and bttv drivers both. I've suspected a
problem with one or both of the drivers anyway.
Bob C
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