[mythtv-users] Blank capture and x setup

Mike Daugird MDaugird at erdman.com
Tue Sep 6 14:14:01 UTC 2005


I have a long post:

PLEASE HELP~ 
I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 and I have read every howto and wiki there is 
This box has an AGP TNT2 card, (2) Hard drives, (1) DVD burner, (1) PVR-350, (1) Hawking WiFi cart(rt2500) 
when I run myth now I find the following problems, 
1) I can't have ivtv-fb loaded when I startx --- after X comes up, I modprobe ivtv-fb first thing. 
2)I am running this as root because the permissions on the /dev/ directory are in quesiton, chmod -R 777 /dev/* by root allows the mythtv user to get the same results as root. To eliminate problems I just did this as root to be sure permissions were not the problem. 
3)I get NO TV!!! when I select watch TV I can see on my TV the myth info, channel number, program name and description, ect. I hit the "c" key to change to the different composite0,1,2,3,4 inputs but it is all the same. 
5) I have tried US-Cable, US-Cable-hrc, US-bcast.. nothing seems to change the result.(how can I tell what it is anyway) 
6)lirc does not work and I don't know what else to do, but that take a back seat to getting the video in the first place. 
7)scheduling recording works, it is all black but the video is titled what it should have recorded. 

I have not touched the xorg.conf file because I don't want X to open into TV yet, since it is broke! 

I feel that the PVR-350 is being used by myth to output the info, I think my input is failing. please please help 
below is the info I can think of: 


myth_hostname ~ # mythbackend 
2005-09-05 17:16:33.799 New DB connection, total: 1 
Starting up as the master server. 
2005-09-05 17:16:33.819 New DB connection, total: 2 
2005-09-05 17:16:33.834 New DB connection, total: 3 
2005-09-05 17:16:33.971 New DB scheduler connection 
2005-09-05 17:16:33.985 mythbackend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 
2005-09-05 17:16:33.985 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 
2005-09-05 17:16:35.977 Reschedule requested for id -1. 
2005-09-05 17:16:37.110 Scheduled 43 items in 1.1 = 0.40 match + 0.73 place 
2005-09-05 17:16:37.115 Seem to be woken up by USER 
2005-09-05 17:16:48.994 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 
2005-09-05 17:16:48.994 adding: myth_hostname as a client (events: 0) 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.038 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.039 adding: myth_hostname as a client (events: 1) 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.062 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.062 adding: myth_hostname as a client (events: 0) 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.094 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.094 adding: myth_hostname as a client (events: 0) 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.110 adding: myth_hostname as a remote ringbuffer 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.130 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 
2005-09-05 17:20:25.887 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 





here is what happens when I try to run the front end**** 

myth_hostname ~ # mythfrontend 
2005-09-05 17:16:41.259 New DB connection, total: 1 
Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 
2005-09-05 17:16:41.267 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 
2005-09-05 17:16:41.274 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 
2005-09-05 17:16:41.275 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 
2005-09-05 17:16:41.763 Switching to square mode (blue) 
2005-09-05 17:16:42.362 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 
2005-09-05 17:16:42.389 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 
2005-09-05 17:16:42.391 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler 
mythtv: could not connect to socket 
mythtv: Connection refused 
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 
2005-09-05 17:16:42.463 Joystick disabled. 
Failed to run 'cdrecord --scanbus' 
2005-09-05 17:16:42.633 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 
2005-09-05 17:16:48.937 New DB connection, total: 2 
2005-09-05 17:16:48.971 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5 
) 
2005-09-05 17:16:48.986 Using protocol version 15 
2005-09-05 17:16:49.054 Using protocol version 15 
Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out 
2005-09-05 17:16:50.698 Using realtime priority. 
2005-09-05 17:16:50.742 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 
2005-09-05 17:20:25.976 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 
2005-09-05 17:20:25.984 Changing from None to None 
myth_hostname ~ # 


dmesg*** is big so here is a link 
http://mike.daugird.com/gentoo/dmesg.txt 




any help is appreciated
also, I really am lost when it comes to the xorg.conf file.
any help is apprecited, really talk down to me, 


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