[mythtv-users] M179 Installation Problems

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:18, Alexei Molchanov wrote:
> Yesterday i've got my new M179 which i put immediately into my box
> with my old Leadtek TV2000 XP deluxe, that went pretty much painless.
> After that i followed instructions found on the forum, installed ivtv
> with the patch for M179, download new firmware (288) and extracted
> it, added required lines to /etc/modules.conf. ran
> #//sbin/depmod -a
> #//sbin/modprobe ivtv
> #dmesg | grep ivtv - returned following information
>
> ivtv: SGarray_size = 340, DSGarray_size = 16
> ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
> tuner: probing ivtv i2c driver #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
> saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
> ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
> ivtv: Device or minor 0 not accepted
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 1
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
> ivtv: Device or minor 0 not accepted
> ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 225
> ivtv: 031118A loaded
>
> That's where i'm stuck at the moment. My new card doesn't work in
> xawtv and in mythtv running
> /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -a
> returns list of all registers with failed status.
>
> What i'm doing wrong? Did i miss something during my installation
> process?

Well, for one thing, hardware MPEG encoder cards don't work with xawtv.  
Try mplayer (as in: mplayer /dev/video0, or 'cat /dev/video0 > 
test.mpg', then 'mplayer test.mpg')

-JAC