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Mike wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid4307DF3B.2040400@dustsmoke.com" type="cite">Richard
Bronosky wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">So I tried to buy hardware specifically to
have a good MythTV
<br>
experience. ( See setup here <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bronosky.com/index.php?p=21">http://www.bronosky.com/index.php?p=21</a> )
<br>
I have obviously failed.
<br>
<br>
I've installed KnoppMyth R5A16, and followed these instructions for
ivtv
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4822#28248">http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4822#28248</a> I used
<br>
ivtv-0.3.7d. I got HcwMakoA.ROM & HcwFalcn.rom off of the latest
CD
<br>
posted on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_mce.html">http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_mce.html</a>
<br>
<br>
I'm getting the "reddish static fade in, fade out" problem. I'm
hearing
<br>
people talk about loading the ivtv module with different parameters. I
<br>
don't know what loading a module is, or how to change parameters. I
<br>
hear people talking about modules.conf and modprobe.conf...
<br>
<br>
This is just too much for me to figure out right now. I don't feel
like
<br>
I know enough to know what I need to learn. I'm not dead set on
<br>
KnoppMyth, but I am dead set on the hardware described above. Can
<br>
someone please tell me the easiest way to get a viewable video signal
<br>
from a PVR-500 using mplayer or something? I just need a little
victory
<br>
to feel good about this project again.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
did you try 0.3.7g... I'm betting it is because your tuners aren't
detecting correctly. I never had these problems on Debian but somebody
I know had tried knoppmyth and had the exact same issues you are
talking about. He gave me access where I tried to build 0.3.7c and I
couldn't get it detecting the tuners right either. It seemed like
something was wrong with tveeprom.ko which didn't make much sense since
building it exactly the same way on debian vs knoppmyth produces 2
entirely different results.... Debian works, knoppmyth doesn't detect
tuners right with a rebuild tveeprom.ko..
<br>
<br>
And for future reference, people will be able to tell you whats wrong
quicker if you post the relivent info from 'dmesg' and post your
configurations.
<br>
<br>
-Mike
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</blockquote>
<font face="Arial">Wow, thanks again to all of you who have offered so
much support. I really am blown away by how well the O.S.S. concept
works.<br>
<br>
I actually had a very encouraging victory this weekend. My wife made
the mistake of going to bed early on Friday. This means she will be
asleep when I go to bed, so "why should I go sooner versus later?"
Come 1am I had followed Todd Ignasiak's advice & URL's and got
/dev/video0 to deliver video to both mplayer and MythTV's "Watch Live
TV"<br>
<br>
I should have went to bed then.<br>
<br>
But, I did notice that the video seemed to be stretched wide and 25% of
the right half was out of view. Since the instructions I was following
used ivtv 0.3.2s I decided to try 0.3.7f (the latest as of then) I
lost all I had gained. I was up until 5am trying to get it to work
again. So, now I must start over with 0.3.2s to see if I can get back
where I was. Can I use symlinks for the ivtv installs?<br>
<br>
Right now I have the following symlinks:<br>
/lib/modules/misc/tuner.ko -> modules/2.6.11.9-chw-2/ivtv/tuner.ko<br>
/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin -> HcwFalcn.rom<br>
<br>
1st, is there a problem with using either of those? (specifically the
first one.)<br>
2nd, I would like to symlink every file that gets installed by
/usr/src/ivtv-x/driver/make install & </font><font face="Arial">/usr/src/ivtv-x/driver/make
install to it's destination, so that I could easily test different
versions of the driver by only calling a "make", and then symlinking </font><font
face="Arial">/lib/modules/... to </font><font face="Arial">/usr/src/ivtv-current/...
and symlinking </font><font face="Arial">/usr/src/ivtv-current/ </font><font
face="Arial">to</font><font face="Arial"> </font><font face="Arial">/usr/src/ivtv-x/.
Is that clear? Can that be done? (I'm wondering if the kernel will
follow these nested links.) What files do I need to link? (is there a
way for me to find that out from the Makefile2.6?)<br>
<br>
Please no RTFMing. I did actually open the file
/usr/src/ivtv-0.3.7f/driver/Makefile2.6 and saw the following sections
"all:", "install: all", "clean:", "reload:", and "unload:". The section
"install:all" seems to "find" msp3400.ko, tuner.ko, tda9887.ko, &
tveeprom.ko in the /lib/modules/x/kernel directory and warn you of
conflicts, but I cannot find where it actually copies those files to
their destinations.<br>
<br>
Please advise.<br>
<br>
I'm changing the title of this thread, since I just went in a whole new
direction.<br>
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