[mythtv-users] M179 Installation Problems

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Tue Dec 23 17:18:54 EST 2003


On Tuesday 23 December 2003 16:34, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 11:48, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > 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')
>
> Another thing: look at the output from dmesg. The ivtv card is
> registering as /dev/video1, not /dev/video0, so you'll have to probe
> it with test_ioctl -d /dev/video1 -a, or fix up your modules.conf so
> it gets /dev/video0.

Sorry, yeah, I guess I should have actually read the dmesg output :-)
-JAC



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