[mythtv-users] M179 Installation Problems

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Tuesday 23 December 2003 11:48, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:18, Alexei Molchanov wrote:
> > Yesterday i've got my new M179 which i put immediately into my box
> > with my old Leadtek TV2000 XP deluxe, that went pretty much painless.
> > After that i followed instructions found on the forum, installed ivtv
> > with the patch for M179, download new firmware (288) and extracted
> > it, added required lines to /etc/modules.conf. ran
> > #//sbin/depmod -a
> > #//sbin/modprobe ivtv
> > #dmesg | grep ivtv - returned following information
> >
> > ivtv: SGarray_size = 340, DSGarray_size = 16
> > ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
> > tuner: probing ivtv i2c driver #0 i2c adapter [id=0x10005]
> > saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
> > ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
> > ivtv: Device or minor 0 not accepted
> > ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 1
> > ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
> > ivtv: Device or minor 0 not accepted
> > ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 225
> > ivtv: 031118A loaded
> >
> > That's where i'm stuck at the moment. My new card doesn't work in
> > xawtv and in mythtv running
> > /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -a
> > returns list of all registers with failed status.
> >
> > What i'm doing wrong? Did i miss something during my installation
> > process?
>
> Well, for one thing, hardware MPEG encoder cards don't work with xawtv.
> Try mplayer (as in: mplayer /dev/video0, or 'cat /dev/video0 >
> test.mpg', then 'mplayer test.mpg')

Another thing: look at the output from dmesg. The ivtv card is registering as 
/dev/video1, not /dev/video0, so you'll have to probe it with test_ioctl -d 
/dev/video1 -a, or fix up your modules.conf so it gets /dev/video0.

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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