[mythtv-users] need help with ivtv!! Really need help (it broke again)!!

Sun Nov 28 02:41:43 UTC 2004

AHHH!!! I can't deal with this.  Everytime i get this stupid box
working out of nowhere it just stops functioning.  I had the box up
and working last night and into today I was watching live tv etc. 
Then i was setting up vnc and working with my webserver so I had to
shut the frontend down so I could work on my tv since I no longer have
a monitor connected.  At that point i had a difficult time shutting
the frontend down.  I don't remember the specifics of what happened
but it wasn't responding.  So i finally got the frontend down and did
what I needed to do on my desktop and then went to my command prompt
and started up mythtfrontend and I wouldn't start up.  So i decided to
reboot to see whether or not that would help and upon rebooting my tv
screen just stays black.  I am still able to ssh into my box so i know
it wasn't a kernel panic or anything like that.  I didn't change any
options since i last had it working!  This is just getting very
frustrating because I dont know what to do because I didn't do
anything to break it (at least that is what I think).

So my ivtv options are in the previous replies to this thread and it
did not change anything with that so I don't believe that is the
problem. I do recall when i originally tried to restart mythfrontend
from the command prompt it got to that screen where it loads the
themes and got to 99% and just stayed there (this was before i
rebooted).

Does anyone know what could have gone wrong?  Or possibly some things
that I can try to fix it?

I can previde a full dmesg but there is one line that I see that makes
me wonder if it is the culprit:
ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.

this error occurs right before the Start Init ivtv line

any ideas??

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:21:16 -0500, Evan Burrows <eburrows at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK well i rebooted last night and was going to continue working on the
> box and now everything seems to work fine.. Go figure.  So we'll see
> how everythings fairs after a reboot because now for some reason my
> remote does not work (I did grab the rpm for my new kernel) and I am
> battling getting my vnc server working.  For some reason it connects
> and I get a command prompt on the screen but i don't get a visual of
> the desktop.
> 
> Oh well another day another battle i guess, at least my mythtv box is
> somewhat useful again
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:34:48 -0500, Evan Burrows <eburrows at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok so I now installed:
> >
> > [root at localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep 2.6.9-1.6
> > kernel-module-nvidia-graphics6629-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-1.0_6629-63.rhfc2.at
> > kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
> > kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2
> > kernel-module-video4linux-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-20041005_125709-53.rhfc2.at
> >
> > I was originally running 6111 and just figured I would do the update
> > while I was at it.  So my modprobe.conf had a line:
> >  alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6111
> >
> > So i commented that out and added:
> > alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6629
> >
> > and rebooted. From that point on I was not able to ssh into my box, it
> > just hung. So I booted into another kernel and changed that back.  I
> > believe that I have everything installed but I am new to
> > changing/upgrading kernels and maybe i missed something.
> >
> > Here is everything i have installed for ivtv:
> > [root at localhost root]# rpm -qa | grep ivtv
> > perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-6.rhfc2.at
> > ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
> > kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
> > ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at
> > ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at
> > ivtv-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
> >
> > I am sure that I am probably doing something really stupid or just
> > missing something
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:07:17 -0800, Jarod Wilson <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 20:03, Evan Burrows wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Ok so hear is my story.  I originally followed jarods guide for FC2
> > > > and installed the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel per the guide.  All was well and
> > > > I could watch live tv, record, and all that other good stuff.  THen i
> > > > tried to get my logitech dual action controller working.  I applied
> > > > the patch to hid-core.c and recompiled the kernel and had an issue
> > > > with the recompile.  So we installed a couple different kernels and
> > > > ivtv drivers but I haven't had luck getting x to run on my pvr350's
> > > > tvout. I am still able to ssh into the box, x does just does not load.
> > > >  So right now I am running the 2.6.9-1.6 kernel and thankfully the
> > > > controller now works but now ivtv is broken.  I did a # apt-get
> > > > install ivtv-firmware
> > > >
> > > > and now rpm -qa | grep ivtv shows:
> > > > ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at
> > > > ivtv-firmware-1.8a-4.at
> > > > ivtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at
> > > >
> > > > Then i tried apt-get install kernel-module-ivtv-$MYKERNEL but it
> > > > couldn't find the package to my kernel.  So i went to atrpms and
> > > > downloaded
> > > > kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
> > > > and tried to install it and got the error:
> > >
> > > run an apt-get update before running the apt-get line, those are fairly new
> > > rpms in the repo.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > [root at localhost mythtv]# rpm -ivh
> > > > kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
> > > > warning:
> > > > kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
> > > >: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 66534c2b
> > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > >         /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.6_FC2/updates/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko
> > > > is needed by
> > > > kernel-module-ivtv-2.6.9-1.6_FC2-0.1.10-48.3_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
> > >
> > > The ivtv kernel module requires the video4linux kernel module.
> > >
> > > > So rather than beating my head against a wall and trying a million
> > > > different combos and probably breaking more stuff in the process which
> > > > rpms should i grab for my setup?
> > >
> > > Try apt-get update && apt-get install kernel-module-ivtv-`uname -r` and it
> > > ought to work. Otherwise, you can just grab the right
> > > kernel-module-video4linux rpm and install that by hand long with the ivtv
> > > one.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
> > > jcw at wilsonet.com
> > >
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