[mythtv-users] Some Install questions - solutions

[Ken Bass]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:10:25 -0400, Ken Bass <kbass at kenbass.com> wrote:

>System is ASUS Pundit, WinTV-radio (401) bt878 card, Redhat 9, manual 
>installation, myth-0.10
>
>1) Running mythtv - entire screen goes black. Seems like I have to 
>Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to exit X-Windows to get my screen back. Running 
>mythfrontend and selecting instant recording the mini-TV preview window is 
>all black. The rest of the screen is okay. Running xawtv -xv works fine.

 This was related to not having ALSA installed. Further problems were caused
by the KDE sound manager using /dev/dsp. Rereading the HOWTO helped, however
the mixer explanation is a bit confusing and the amixer commands don't work
for me.

>2) xmltv 0.5.15 is failing to (tv_grab_na --configure) with HTTP 500: 
>Internal Server Error. Wondering if this is a problem with zap2it or my 
>perl setup. A manual visit to the website and entered my zip code yields a 
>channel listing. When I attempted to update HTML::Parser from CPAN during 
>the install it fails the tests.

  This is due to the HTML::Parser error. To fix, I edited
/etc/sysconfig/i18n - changed LANG="en_US.UTF-8" to LANG="en_US".
I then reinstalled HTML::Parser.

>3) When using either the default SIS XFree driver (SIS 651) or the one from 
>winischhofer site results in hard hangs or hard reboots of X (This took a 
>long time to track down). The boots are most prevalent when running Mozilla 
>and when multiple windows are on the screen. Very odd. VESA generic is 
>okay. I will eventually need SIS for TV-OUT however.

  The lockups with the sis driver are odd. I found some references at the
winischhofer site to the sis drivers not supporting 'DRI'. I modified
/etc/X11/XF86Config and commented out the 'Load "dri"' line. So far, no
hangs.