[mythtv-users] IVTV-FB error - should have left good enough alone

[Hank VanZile]

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you all for this wonderful project and the support 
network surrounding it.  I've had my Myth box up and mostly up and 
running for about 6 months and it's been adopted into our regular 
routine by my wife.  That is until yesterday.

I initially built the system using Jarod's guide.  Until yesterday I was 
running Myth 0.16 on Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.8-1.521 and a 
PVR-350.  Most things were working just fine (even X out to the TV), 
though I would have front-end crashes at leasts once a week (caused, I 
believe, by IVTV).   Yesterday I upgraded my dedicated recordings hard 
drive and decided to do some tweaks (big mistake).

First of all, I installed XFCE and made that my default Window Manager.  
Secondly, I used Synaptic to update MythTV to 0.17 and decided, while I 
was there, to upgrade IVTV as well, since I was experiencing the 
aforementioned crashes.  Everything went alright, but when I went back 
into Myth and watched a recording, the video (not audio) was stuttering 
pretty badly.  I noticed in Synaptic that there was another update to 
IVTV (as well as MythTV) and went for it.  It required a kernel update 
to 2.6.10, to which I agreed.  It got part way and then Synaptic 
crashed.  At that point, things started acting a little wonky - the 
backend didn't start up on launch, etc., so I decided to remove MythTV 
and IVTV entirely (using Synaptic) and start from scratch.

I went back to Jarod's FC2 guide and installed MythSuite using apt-get 
with no problems whatsoever.  Then I went to follow the instructions for 
IVTV and there were no packages found for my kernel.  I looked for 
kernel upgrades on Axel's site, but couldn't find any for FC2.

Okay, then, on to manual IVTV installation.  I downloaded CK100ZZ, since 
Jarod recommends it as the most stable version.  I did a "make install" 
on the "driver" directory and now I am getting a TON of ivtv-fb errors 
when I try to load it.

I am totally at a loss.  I'm not very good with manually building and 
installing packages and I'm not sure I installed IVTV correctly.  I 
don't want to wipe the drive and start from scratch and I'm already 
going to have to pay the piper for missing out on recording "24" tonight. ;)

Can anyone help guide me?  Thanks in advance.

-Hank