[mythtv-users] Re: Problem with MythTv 0.14 and bttv 0.9.12 (or kernel 2.6.1)!

gkanis at cems.umn.edu gkanis at cems.umn.edu
Mon Feb 2 22:12:09 EST 2004


I was lucky. I managed to watch LiveTv with MythTv, but I do have some 
problems:

1) I am stiill getting messages when I run dmesg
2) I am not able to use mouse when I run Mythfrontend to select the icons, I 
can move around with the keys, only.
3) When I select watch Tv, most of the times, the image is dark, difficult to 
watch Tv. If I change channel, the image is back to normal, however.
4) Finally, MythFrontend takes about 50% of CPU capacity. BTW, I have P4 at 
2.4 Mhz. Is this normal. DMA is enabled for the hdd I am using.

I would also like to apologize for all my previous annoying emails. i had no 
intention to abuse the mailing list, I was just frustrated (not with you), 
with my TVCard, Linux, etc and with the fact that I could not use MythTv to 
watch,record my favourites movies.

Thank you,
Vasilis




On Monday 02 February 2004 04:12 pm, gkanis at cems.umn.edu wrote:
> I found one more thing that might help you to indetify the problem:
>
> After I kill mythfrontend, mythbackend gives the next message
> strange error flushing buffer ...  <----- This is when I select livetv
> 2004-02-02 16:10:04 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> Can't read vbi data
>
> Vasilis
>
> On Monday 02 February 2004 02:55 pm, gkanis at cems.umn.edu wrote:
> > Please, help
> > Is there anybody out there who has a clue on what i might be doing wrong
> >
> > I really want to use MythTv, like the rest of you, but I can not.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Vasilis
> >
> > On Monday 02 February 2004 10:22 am, gkanis at cems.umn.edu wrote:
> > >  I was hoping MythTv 0.14 will fix the problem that I had with watching
> > > live TV, but it did not. I searched the forum and I found that I need
> > > to downgrade to bttv 0.9.11, but that did not work either. I was not
> > > able to compile bttv 0.9.11.
> > >  Here is the error :
> > >  make -C /lib/modules/2.6.1/build SUBDIRS=/home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11
> > > modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.1'
> > >  *** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
> > >  ***          inconsistencies
> > >  make[2]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
> > >    CC [M]  /home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/btcx-risc.o
> > >    CC [M]  /home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/bttv-driver.o
> > >  /home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/bttv-driver.c: In function `bttv_open':
> > >  /home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/bttv-driver.c:2761: called object is not a
> > >  function /home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/bttv-driver.c: In function
> > > `radio_open': /home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/bttv-driver.c:2897: called
> > > object is not a function make[2]: ***
> > > [/home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11/bttv-driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: ***
> > > [/home/vasilis/bttv-0.9.11] Error 2
> > >  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.1'
> > >
> > >  Let me describe what the problem is.
> > >  I manually start mythbackend and then I run mythfrontend. I click on
> > > watch tv and I get a black screen. ESC does not work and the only way
> > > to get out is to kill mythFrontend.
> > >  Dmesg gives the following
> > >  bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high irq latency?
> > >  [main=d519000,o_vbi=1c0f6000,o_field=d519020,rc=1c0f601c]
> > >
> > >  Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > >  Thank you
> > >  Vasilis
> > >
> > >  PS. Tvtime works fine!
> > >
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