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

Hank VanZile mythtv at hankvanzile.com
Wed Mar 2 03:58:56 UTC 2005


So, I was about to try this out, but then I realized I'm not really sure 
what to do first.  As I said, I've made at least one failed attempt at 
installing IVTV from the source.  I assume I have to remove that first?  
Can anyone give me some instructions on how to remove my mistake before 
trying to install it again?

Thanks,
Hank

Hank VanZile wrote:

> Thanks, Mark.  I'll give this a try.
>
>
> Mark Matula wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this will help you , but for .17 to work on my 
>> previously
>> working system (Debian unstable), I needed to upgrade ivtv.  I went 
>> with the
>> latest 0.2.x tarball (0.2.0 rc3g at the time) from here:
>> http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=DownloadIvyTv
>> and followed these instructions:
>> http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1#q11
>>
>> Pay attention to this file: ./ivtv-0.2.0-rc3g/utils/README.X11 
>> 'install' the
>> x fb driver as instructed, and change the Driver line in your X 
>> config if
>> needed (was 'Driver "fbdev"' now 'Driver "ivtvdev"').
>>
>> On difference, though is that here
>> (http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions )ivtv 
>> folks say
>> to use the firmware from pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe.  With that firmware, my
>> recordings would occasionally stutter.  I changed to the suppoosedly 
>> buggy
>> firmware from pvr_1.18.21.22168_inf.zip, and all's well.  May it help 
>> you.
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Hank VanZile wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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  
>>



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