[mythtv-users] IVTV-FB error - should have left good enough alone

[Mark Matula]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Hank VanZile wrote:

I believe if you untar into a fresh directory and compile from within there,
when you do the 'make install' it'll write over any earlier mistakes.
Though you will want to pay attention to this doc:
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.1
esp. the part that talks about getting rid of old versions of msp3400.o

> So, I was about to try this out, but then I realized I'm not really sure
> what to do first.  As I said, I've made at least one failed attempt at
> installing IVTV from the source.  I assume I have to remove that first?
> Can anyone give me some instructions on how to remove my mistake before
> trying to install it again?
>
> Thanks,
> Hank
>
> Hank VanZile wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Mark.  I'll give this a try.
> >
> >
> > Mark Matula wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know if this will help you , but for .17 to work on my
> >> previously
> >> working system (Debian unstable), I needed to upgrade ivtv.  I went
> >> with the
> >> latest 0.2.x tarball (0.2.0 rc3g at the time) from here:
> >> http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=DownloadIvyTv
> >> and followed these instructions:
> >> http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1#q11
> >>
> >> Pay attention to this file: ./ivtv-0.2.0-rc3g/utils/README.X11
> >> 'install' the
> >> x fb driver as instructed, and change the Driver line in your X
> >> config if
> >> needed (was 'Driver "fbdev"' now 'Driver "ivtvdev"').
> >>
> >> On difference, though is that here
> >> (http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions )ivtv
> >> folks say
> >> to use the firmware from pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe.  With that firmware, my
> >> recordings would occasionally stutter.  I changed to the suppoosedly
> >> buggy
> >> firmware from pvr_1.18.21.22168_inf.zip, and all's well.  May it help
> >> you.
> >>
> >> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Hank VanZile wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> First of all, thank you all for this wonderful project and the support
> >>> network surrounding it.  I've had my Myth box up and mostly up and
> >>> running for about 6 months and it's been adopted into our regular
> >>> routine by my wife.  That is until yesterday.
> >>>
> >>> I initially built the system using Jarod's guide.  Until yesterday I
> >>> was
> >>> running Myth 0.16 on Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.8-1.521 and a
> >>> PVR-350.  Most things were working just fine (even X out to the TV),
> >>> though I would have front-end crashes at leasts once a week (caused, I
> >>> believe, by IVTV).   Yesterday I upgraded my dedicated recordings hard
> >>> drive and decided to do some tweaks (big mistake).
> >>>
> >>> First of all, I installed XFCE and made that my default Window Manager.
> >>> Secondly, I used Synaptic to update MythTV to 0.17 and decided, while I
> >>> was there, to upgrade IVTV as well, since I was experiencing the
> >>> aforementioned crashes.  Everything went alright, but when I went back
> >>> into Myth and watched a recording, the video (not audio) was stuttering
> >>> pretty badly.  I noticed in Synaptic that there was another update to
> >>> IVTV (as well as MythTV) and went for it.  It required a kernel update
> >>> to 2.6.10, to which I agreed.  It got part way and then Synaptic
> >>> crashed.  At that point, things started acting a little wonky - the
> >>> backend didn't start up on launch, etc., so I decided to remove MythTV
> >>> and IVTV entirely (using Synaptic) and start from scratch.
> >>>
> >>> I went back to Jarod's FC2 guide and installed MythSuite using apt-get
> >>> with no problems whatsoever.  Then I went to follow the instructions
> >>> for
> >>> IVTV and there were no packages found for my kernel.  I looked for
> >>> kernel upgrades on Axel's site, but couldn't find any for FC2.
> >>>
> >>> Okay, then, on to manual IVTV installation.  I downloaded CK100ZZ,
> >>> since
> >>> Jarod recommends it as the most stable version.  I did a "make install"
> >>> on the "driver" directory and now I am getting a TON of ivtv-fb errors
> >>> when I try to load it.
> >>>
> >>> I am totally at a loss.  I'm not very good with manually building and
> >>> installing packages and I'm not sure I installed IVTV correctly.  I
> >>> don't want to wipe the drive and start from scratch and I'm already
> >>> going to have to pay the piper for missing out on recording "24"
> >>> tonight. ;)
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone help guide me?  Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>> -Hank
> >>
>
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Mark Matula
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