[mythtv-users] Re: Setup issues(New to MythTV)

Don Sheehan don.sheehan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 21:38:15 EST 2005


I cut this down to make it to the list. Thanks

On 11/19/05, Don Sheehan <don.sheehan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am having very little success setting up myth on multiple levels. Any
> help is greatly appreciated. I am pulling my hair outand there was not much
> to start with!
>
> At this point, after following more than a few howto's and guides, I am
> ready to start over if that is the best course of action. Is there a clean
> howto for gentoo with TV-out working?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Gentoo 2.6.14
> ATI Radeon 7000
> Hauppauge 150MCE w/ remote
> media-tv/mythtv-0.18.1-r1
> media-tv/ivtv-0.4.0-r2
> app-misc/lirc-0.7.0-r1
>
>
> I could not get TV-out to work with the radeon driver but it is working
> with vesa
> Is this a possible problem?
> It was in color, now it is B&W only, ugghhh
>
> I cannot get the video input to show anything but black static. The cable
> (RG-6) is attached to the coax connector and I have checked that there is
> signal.
> Which device is the right one? I get output from /dev/v4l/video0, video24
> and video32 but it is black static.
> I have followed the ivtv guidance to get the firmware into /lib/modules...
> but no change even after a reboot.
>
> The mce remote does not work. (it is the one with gray on top) I tried
> jarod's file and the one that gets created by manually when I compiled lirc
> from source.
> The lircd log below shows it as ok after the last reboot and it loads the
> firmware accorging to dmesg below.
> irw show nothing.
>
>
> Now I have lots of this in /var/log/messages and dmesg
> Nov 19 20:16:28 gentoo ivtv0 warning: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #158240:
> Stealing a Buffer, 512 currently allocated
>
>
> Linux version 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 (root at gentoo) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo
> 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 SMP Sat Nov 5 08:01:36 EST 2005
> <snipped>
> 511MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
> On node 0 totalpages: 130864
> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
> Normal zone: 126768 pages, LIFO batch:31
> HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> DMI 2.3 present.
> ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000faac0
> <snipped>
> vesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., R100, 01.00 (OEM: ATI RADEON VE)
> vesafb: VBE version: 2.0
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5478
> vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c550c, set palette = c00c5558
> vesafb: pmi: ports = a010 a016 a054 a038 a03c a05c a000 a004 a0b0 a0b2
> a0b4
> vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 0 Hz, hf = 0 kHz, clk = 0 MHz
> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, using 10240k,
> total 65536k
> fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> <snipped>
> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
> ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
> ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 SMP preempt 586 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3
> ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
> ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
> ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
> ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
> tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 26582, rev = C299, serial# = 8441914
> tveeprom: tuner = <unknown> (idx = 99, type = -1069535552)
> tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
> tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3410D (type = 5)
> : chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
> cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> cx25840 0-0044: loaded /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM firmware (14264 bytes)
> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44]
> wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b]
> ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> tuner 0-0061: tuner type not set
> tuner 0-0061: tuner type not set
> ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #0
> ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
> <snipped>
> usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> usb 2-2: ep0 maxpacket = 16
> usb 2-2: default language 0x0409
> usb 2-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 2-2: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver
> usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SMK
> usb 2-2: SerialNumber: SM003w0J
> usb 2-2: hotplug
> usb 2-2: adding 2-2:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
> usb 2-2:1.0: hotplug
> <snipped>
> usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> usb 2-2: ep0 maxpacket = 16
> usb 2-2: default language 0x0409
> usb 2-2: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 2-2: Product: eHome Infrared Transceiver
> usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SMK
> usb 2-2: SerialNumber: SM003w0J
> usb 2-2: hotplug
> usb 2-2: adding 2-2:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
> usb 2-2:1.0: hotplug
> <snipped>
> ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe0000]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
> radeonfb: cannot reserve FB region
> <snipped>


gentoo ~ # more /var/log/lircd
> Nov 18 20:31:15 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: lircd(mceusb) ready
> Nov 18 20:31:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> Nov 18 20:31:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: could not get file information for
> /dev/lirc0
> Nov 18 20:31:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: default_init(): No such file or
> directory
> Nov 18 20:31:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: caught signal
> Nov 18 18:53:15 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: lircd(mceusb) ready
> Nov 19 18:56:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
> Nov 19 18:56:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: could not get file information for
> /dev/lirc0
> Nov 19 18:56:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: default_init(): No such file or
> directory
> Nov 19 18:56:22 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: caught signal
> Nov 18 20:34:09 gentoo lircd 0.7.1: lircd(mceusb) ready
> gentoo ~ # irw
> gentoo ~ #
>
> mythfrontend starup messages
> Total desktop width=640, height=480, numscreens=1
> 2005-11-19 21:03:27.058 Using screen 0, 640x480 at 0,0
> 2005-11-19 21:03:27.061 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1
> www.mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org>
> 2005-11-19 21:03:27.061 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> 2005-11-19 21:03:27.572 Switching to square mode (blue)
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: Connection refused
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2005-11-19 21:03:27.846 Joystick disabled.
> 2005-11-19 21:03:27.915 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2005-11-19 21:03:28.210 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media
> handler
> 2005-11-19 21:03:28.211 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media
> handler
> 2005-11-19 21:03:28.980 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media
> handler
>
> mythtv at gentoo ~ $ lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> ipv6 250528 18
> snd_pcm_oss 59392 0
> snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_dummy 3684 0
> snd_seq_oss 34368 0
> snd_seq_midi_event 7008 1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq 57040 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> ohci_hcd 34916 0
> parport_pc 39716 0
> parport 35880 1 parport_pc
> floppy 59316 0
> pcspkr 3616 0
> rtc 9172 0
> radeonfb 22804 0
> snd_via82xx 28800 0
> gameport 16264 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_ac97_codec 79292 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_pcm 97764 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
> snd_timer 26660 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 10856 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> snd_mpu401_uart 8096 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_rawmidi 26720 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 8652 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> snd 63524 13
> snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> i2c_viapro 8176 0
> ehci_hcd 47080 0
> uhci_hcd 34348 0
> sata_via 8516 0
> tda9887 13264 0
> wm8775 6204 0
> cx25840 39732 0
> firmware_class 10368 1 cx25840
> tuner 35976 0
> tveeprom 11792 0
> ivtv 210836 0
> i2c_algo_bit 9480 1 ivtv
> i2c_core 21696 7
> i2c_viapro,tda9887,wm8775,cx25840,tuner,tveeprom,i2c_algo_bit
> videodev 9888 1 ivtv
> sk98lin 164448 0
> sata_promise 11012 0
> libata 46532 2 sata_via,sata_promise
> amd64_agp 12232 1
> agpgart 35280 1 amd64_agp
> usbcore 133308 4 ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
> dm_mod 58076 0
>
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