[mythtv-users] Problems with PVR-350 and Nvidia geforce mx 4000

[Michael Arndt]

Hello all,

I was a happy mythtv user for many months on a system using a dual-head
display with an old Voodoo3 video card for the monitor and a pvr-350 for
mythtv output.  Decided to upgrade to a newer box, and as part of it got a
nvidia geforce mx4000 to replace the aging voodoo3.  Now, I'm having all
kinds of problems getting my PVR-350 to work properly.  If I login as root,
my pvr-350 seems to work OK - I get a 2nd X display going out my 350 to my
tv.  But if I use my automatic login to my personal account, X crashes and
I get the following in /var/log/messages:

Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: ivtv warning: IRQ: IVTV_IRQ_DEC_DMA_ERR
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky last message repeated 32 times
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky kernel: ivtv warning: IRQ: IVTV_IRQ_DEC_DMA_ERR
Sep  5 09:02:18 bucky last message repeated 112 times
Sep  5 09:02:20 bucky gdm-autologin(pam_unix)[10386]: session opened for user marndt by (uid=0)
Sep  5 09:02:20 bucky gconfd (marndt-10488): starting (version 2.8.1), pid 10488 user 'marndt'
Sep  5 09:02:20 bucky gconfd (marndt-10488): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0
Sep  5 09:02:20 bucky gconfd (marndt-10488): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/marndt/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1
Sep  5 09:02:20 bucky gconfd (marndt-10488): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2
Sep  5 09:02:21 bucky kernel: ivtv warning: IRQ: IVTV_IRQ_DEC_DMA_ERR
Sep  5 09:02:21 bucky last message repeated 7 times
Sep  5 09:02:21 bucky gconfd (marndt-10488): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Sep  5 09:02:21 bucky gconfd (marndt-10488): Exiting
Sep  5 09:02:21 bucky gdm[10386]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
Sep  5 09:02:21 bucky gdm-autologin(pam_unix)[10386]: session closed for user marndt

I'm using ivtv 0.3.7k:

Sep  5 08:01:51 bucky kernel: ivtv: version 0.3.7 (k) loading

Any ideas?  Let me know what other info I can provide...thanks,

Mike