[mythtv-users] Broke my X server then it doesn't work

John Retermeyer jretermeyer at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 11 09:22:32 UTC 2004


I did that sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes=4096
command thing, but what do I tyupe in
to make it "Switched ivtv driver to 1.10 pre2 ck100zz
(had originally gotten .00 installed)" ?

Do I just tyupe "apt-get update" ?

it don't seem to do
anything, I will keep you updated.

Thank you once again.


--- anders smith <4nders at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been there recently and had the exact same
> errors ...
> what I did (and I don't know which one of the things
> that fixed it ) was...
> 
> rebooted  (cold! ...30 sec completely without power
> as the pvr card
> retains some settings otherwise)
> 
> changed the virtual memory system allocation (search
> the list for the
> xact setting cmd)
> 
> Cleaned up my module.conf as I had some extra lines
> that I was used to
> having from the 2.4 kernel days such as insert below
> etc
> 
> Switched ivtv driver to 1.10 pre2 ck100zz (had
> originally gotten .00 installed)
> 
> eventually it worked and I haven't had any problems
> since
> 
> rgds
> anders
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:50:47 -0800 (PST), John
> Retermeyer
> <jretermeyer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Followed all of the instructions until
> > I got to the /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000
> > command and then it says Cannot allocate
> > memory, shit!!!!
> > 
> > http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#sw
> > Should have made my PVR-250 work,
> > well it doesn't.
> > 
> > God damn it I am pissed off.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong??
> > 
> > Linux localhost 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18
> EDT
> > 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > root at localhost ntr]# /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000
> > Failed to open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory
> > 
> > Sorry if I don't have enough info on here,
> > will post it if I can, but I am so damn
> > pissed off I have to go break something.
> > 
> > DAMN IT i HATE when shit don't work!!!!!!!!
> > 
> > 
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