[mythtv-users] bt878, kernel 2.6.2, and nvidia binary

cvertesi at indiana.edu cvertesi at indiana.edu
Wed Feb 18 14:13:38 EST 2004


I have the same setup, except mine isn't a test box.  :)  I had the same problem
with XAWTV, the trick is that it is looking at the wrong video device.  Try

# xawtv -device /dev/video0

And you'll probably have better results.  Congratulations on getting the NVidia
drivers to work with 2.6; I gave up on that front.  

C

Quoting David Bishop <tech at gnuconsulting.com>:

> I've decided to do a 'test' setup of myth on my existing hardware, before 
> going out and spending the big bucks on a nice htpc.  That means using an old
> 
> Hauppauge WinTV card, bt878 based, and my existing geforce 440mx vid card.  I
> 
> also recently upgraded this machine to 2.6.2, and (after a little struggle) 
> am running the latest nvidia binary drivers.  I am still in the prep work (I
> 
> have yet to apt-get install the myth stuff), but want to make absoluetly sure
> 
> that everything is hunky dory outside of myth, thus restricting the possible
> 
> cause when I run into the inevitable problems (inevitable because that's the
> 
> way I am, not a knock on myth itself).  When I use mplayer, my vo is xv, and
> 
> everything works fine.  When I use xawtv (to test the bt878), if I use xv all
> 
> I get is a blue screen.  Using the -noxv switch makes everything work great,
> 
> except that 'full screen' isn't (it *is* bigger than the default, just not 
> full screen, more like 1/2 or 1/3).
> 
> So, my question is, how do I verify that xv is working (completely) on my 
> machine?  And, since the *main* purpose of my myth install will be to watch 
> divx and vcds, am I going to run into problems if I *don't* have xv support 
> (i.e., will some other method work as well)?  Sorry if I come across as 
> paranoid, I don't mean to be...
> -- 
> D.A.Bishop
> 




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