[mythtv-users] black screen

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 01:03 am, Douglas Beck wrote:
> OK, I've recently setup my PVR-250.  The black screen thing is
> annoying.  One of the things I would do is hook something to all of the
> inputs on your card.  In addition, I created a simple script that can
> run these commands (al la Jarod).  Your setup may differ of course (this
> is NTSC, 640x480, S-Video, and I'm not sure what the -v line is):
>
> /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -u 0x3000
> /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -v input=3,output=1
> /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -f width=640,height=480
> /usr/lib/ivtv/test_ioctl -p 5
>
> Then, when I'm fighting the "black screen" problem, I go in myth to the
> watch TV but don't select "watch tv" until you run the script
> above...then go into watch tv.  For some reason after I had it working,
> the settings persisted after reboot.  But sometimes my myth setup gets
> confused and running the above script while not watching tv or recording
> gets my pvr-250 card settings back to where they should be.

Why don't you just setup mythtv properly, as it would then take care of 
setting up the driver for you instead of the test_ioctl stuff?

Isaac