[mythtv-users] Nova-T and system hangs

[Christopher McEwan]

Try adding "v4l" to your xf86config (or xorg.conf) under the Load modules part.

That seemed to sort it for me when using my Nova-T


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:22:42 +0000, Peter Guthrie
<peter at unixplanet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> System:
> 
> Generic Motherboard with KT266A chipset
> Duron 750Mhz, 512MB DDR RAM
> Hauppauge Nova-T tuner
> ATI RageProLT AGP
> Fedora Core 2 (2.6.8 kernel) with MythTV 0.16 (built with Jarods guide
> and Atrpms).
> 
> Problem:
> 
> Until yesterday the system had an analog WinTV PCI tuner card. As you
> can imagine with that CPU the performance and picture quality was not
> good but it worked ok.
> 
> Last night I removed the analog tv card and replaced it with the Nova-T
> and followed the guide at http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html.
> 
> Following that procedure I had some success in viewing digital tv
> outside of Myth with dvbstream and mplayer although it initially
> complained about opening a sound device (fixed by using the '-ao alsa'
> option with mplayer) and would stall after about 5 seconds. I enabled
> 'PCI delay transaction' in the BIOS as suggested in the above guide but
> it seemed to make no difference.
> 
> Undeterred I decided to bash on and set up the card in Myth. With just
> one channel configured I was able to start the frontend and view that
> channel for about 60 seconds before it locked up the the whole system
> hard. In subsequent attempts (after a power reset and fsck) the system
> now locks up instantantly when I select the 'Watch TV' menu item in the
> frontend.
> 
> I know it's not much to go on but does anyone have any ideas what I
> might try to debug this? I can't see any messages that may help me
> understand why it's locking up as I can't switch to any VC's once it's
> locked up. tzap works fine and I get the FE_LOCK flag almost instantly
> outside of Myth so I think the signal is fine (certainly the picture
> looked incredible for the 60 seconds or so I saw it ;)
> 
> Peter
> 
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Regards,


~CM