[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV Output

[IvanK.]

There was a sh!tlist of faulty VIA chipsets floating around the mailing list.  
Basically any kt-x33 chipset has DMA issues which *may* be the cause of the 
described behavior.  I'd take a wild guess you fall in the same statistics.

I could very well be wrong.  Wait for second opinion.

Another suggestion, change the line (in /etc/modules.conf) that reads:

options ivtv ivtv_debug=2

to

options ivtv ivtv_debug=7

run depmod -a `uname -r`

then reboot

then do tail -f /var/log/messages before you start myth* and watch for 
interesting stuff.

Myth itself *cannot* lock up a system since it's a user-level application.  A 
kernel-level module (ivtv, ivtv-fb) can lock up a system due to a deffective, 
buggy piece of hardware.  Get on the ivtv-users mailing list and ask for help 
there.  Every other day a new thread is started about DMA problems.  Go to 
ivtv.sf.net -- the ivtv home page.

And finally, don't give up yet -- there's hope.  Once you get myth working, 
it's a treat.  So sweet.

IvanK.

On Sunday 04 January 2004 09:56 pm, Bill Mackintosh wrote:
> I have built a system around RedHat's Fedora Core 1 and followed Jarod's
> page at  <http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ and have
> succeeded in getting MythTV to work on the PC.  Everytime I  follow the
> directions for enabling the ivtv-fb output at
> <http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-print.php?page=TvOutHowto>
> http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-print.php?page=TvOutHowto I can compile the
> driver (I have used ivtv-031125A-0.12, ivtv-031125A and
> decoder-alpha-311003A versions) and install it, and can get MythTV to
> output the video to the television, however the mythfrontend process (or
> possibly the entire OS) locks up after approximately 15-20 seconds, faster
> if I change channels (using external receiver w/appropriate channel
> changing perl script specified in MythTV setup) or rewind/FF the video.
>
> When compiling the ivtv-fb driver, I get a couple of "#warning Using
> temporary hack for missing I2C driver-ID for" error messages, one for
> saa7114 and one for tveeprom.c.  I have also seen the onscreen error
> message in the terminal window while viewing the logs"warning: cannot
> reserve video memory at 0x15000000 (not absolutely sure of the error #
> there, sorry!)
>
> Since MythTV works just fine w/out the ivtv-fb driver installed, I'm fairly
> confident this is the culprit.  W/out the TV output, the system is
> virtually useless to me since I don't want to watch TV on a CRT.
>
> I am a new linux user, basically got into it just to get MythTV setup and
> running.  I am very versed in DOS/Windows however, and am willing to learn
> Linux! :)
>
> I've tried to include as much system info as I can below.  Any help you can
> offer in getting this working will be most appreciated!
>
> PC Specs
> BioStar M7VKG motherboard
> Athlon 1.2GHz CPU
> 2 x 256MB PC 133MHz memory modules (for a total of 512MB onboard)
> Visiontek GEForce 3 TI200 AGP graphics card
> Hauppauge PVR-350
> Sohoware 10/100 NIC
> Soundblaster Live Value! soundcard (As a side question, is this actually
> necessary since the PVR-350 is doing all the encoding/decoding of the
> audio?)
> Maxtor 20GB ATA100 master drive (root, boot and swap partitions)
> Western Digital 80GB ATA133 slave drive (mounted as /d_hdd and will be used
> as video storage drive if I can get MythTV working correctly with the video
> output)
> 16X DVD-ROM drive
> 3 1/2" floppy drive
>
> Software Specs
> Running RedHat Fedora Core 1 running custom kernel 2.4.22-1.2135.nptl_27 as
> specified on Jarod's site.
> Using OSS as sound module, not ALSA
> Have updated via apt-get to ALL latest modules/drivers.  No other updates
> available.
> Running mythtv .13 + all add on modules