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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I built a MythTV system yesterday/last-night using
Jarod's guide with Fedorea Core 2 and a PVR-350. (System is a Compaq
'Professional Workstation AP550' - it has a PIII 866, 256MB Rambus
800, Adaptec U160 SCSI and a Seagate 18GB U160 drive.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Everything was going perfectly, with the 350'sTuner
working, 350'sTV Out working (at least with the test video - i did NOT set it up
for 'X'), remote setup & working, etc. I configured myth via
'mythsetup', and started up the backend and frontend manually and tested things
out. I shutdown my system a few times, and after working out a couple of
issues (remote not working after re-boot), I was satisfied with it's operation,
so I setup everything except mythfrontend to startup automatically and
re-booted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Everthing worked great until I tried to view 'live
tv' in mythfrontend. My screen went blank, and the computer was
un-responsive to anything I did. The HDD had activity every second or so
in a rythmatic pattern, which suggested to me that mythtv was
buffering 'live tv', but I had no display (on either the pc monitor or the
PVR-350 output), and no amount of button-pushing (remote buttons, "Alt-F4",
"Esc", or anything!) would get the system to respond to me... So I ended
up pulling the power plug. (I know, it's a bad thing to do with
Linux... But I had tried everything else, and didn't find anything in the
archives either...)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So now my system hangs on a text screen, just
before where 'X' would startup before... Here's what is
displayed: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Fedora Core
release 2 (Tettnang)</FONT></DIV>
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Kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 on an i686</FONT></DIV>
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myth-tv-backend login: ivtv: ==========</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>========== END INIT IVTV
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itv-osd: Framebuffe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>r is at decoder-relative address 0x00510000 and has
1704960 bytes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's it... It doesn't do anything
else, and since I'm not familiar with Linux, I don't know what to do from
here... I tried to hit "I" during the boot process, but it didn't
seem to have any affect... (if this were winblows based
I'd have it fixed in seconds, but I don't know how to troubleshoot linux boot
issues...)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help would be greatly
appreciated... I want MythTV so badly!!!
;-)</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jeff</FONT></DIV>
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