[mythtv-users] MythTV Help needed

[Ian Lesnet]

Does mythtv have write permissions on the ringbuffer location?  is the ring
buffer location correctly entered in setup? ie "/store/", correct number of
'/' etc.  Both of these foibles have given me that same problem many times.

----- Original Message -----
From: <qcs at cableone.net>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:54 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] MythTV Help needed


> I am having a great deal of trouble getting MythTV to work properly. I can
get
> the backend and frontend running but when I try and watch TV I get a nice
black
> screen. The first obvious problem is that MythTV seems to be trying to use
> tv_grab_na and I only have the newer tv_grab_dd. I've tryed getting the
XML file
> and then using mythfilldatabase --file but I'm not sure what sourceid
means. I am
> using /dev/video0 so I assume that my sourceid should be 0. After running
> mythfilldatabase --file 0 -1 /tmp/tv.xml it displays some benign, I think,
errors
> dealing with icons and such. The channels table in my database is
populated but I
> have no idea if the data is correct. When I
> run mythbackend I get these two errors:
> CheckChannel failed. Please verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel
Editor.
> Cableone is defined, but isn't attached to a cardinput.
>
> One thing that looks to me like it might be wrong is the freqid in the
channel
> table. All of my entries are in the format '2 KJR' or '3 KDO'. Is this the
data
> that should be in this field? I have been working on this all day and am
getting
> burned out but I really would like to get it going. If anyone can offer
give me
> some suggestions on what I might be doing wrong I'd be greatful. I've
included my
> system specs below.
>
> AMD 2400+
> TNT2 video card
> Hauppauge WinTV-GO 150
> Fedora Core 1
>
>
>
>


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