[mythtv-users] Bad device or device not enabled on front end start

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 22 20:41:07 UTC 2007


On 22/01/07, Medmerd lawrence <medmerd at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, im a little new to all this stuff and im just trying to get my front
> end to connect to the backend. i have installed my ivtv drivers and i have
> tested. The issue seams to be that myth will not reognize my PVR-500 in the
> device setup. It only shows the 250 and the 350 not the 150 or the 500(
> which is just 2 150s if im not mistaken.) any how here is the error thats
> got me. sorry if i dont give the correct info.
>
> Front End out put
>
> elawrence at MainTv:~$ sudo mythfrontend
> Password:
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
>   Major opcode:  144
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
>   Major opcode:  144
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device

That's looks like broken/missing Xv support in your video card driver,
which is nothing to do with ivtv. If you have a problem with ivtv, the
output from your syslog when the ivtv module is loaded is usually a
good chunk of information to post.

Nick
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