[mythtv-users] Possible help for those experiencing "blue screen" during playback

[Mark Knecht]

Michael,
   I'm having the same problem (blue screen, distorted video) on one
of my machines that uses a PVR-150. I've found that doign rmmod
ivtv;modprobe ivtv by hand after the machine has booted gets the
driver working for me.

   The machine is an up to date Gentoo box using a 2.6.11 kernel and
has run xorg-6.8 for a long time. the machine uses udev. I am
suspecting that something about the way udev sets up at boot time
doesn't agree with the ivtv driver but that's just a guess.

   You (or others) might try the rmmod/modprobe test if necessary.

Cheers,
Mark

On 5/31/05, Michael J. Lynch <mlynch at gcom.com> wrote:
> I use an old 733Mhz PIII machine with onboard Intel video as a
> frontend.  The machine is loaded with FC2 and I build Myth for
> it from CVS.  This past weekend I decided to do a "dist-upgrade"
> on the machine just to get all of the system goop updated.
> 
> The upgrade downloaded and installed ~110 packages.  After a
> reboot, I fired up myth and attempted to watch a recording.  All
> I got was sound and a "blue screen".  So I tried to watch a video.
> Mplayer fired up for a second or two then exited.  Then I
> remembered before the upgrade, I was running version xorgs 6.8.0
> version of X that I had compiled from source.
> 
> When I upgraded the machine, xorg version 6.7.0 of x was downloaded
> and installed.  I re-compiled and installed version 6.8.0 and the
> "blue screen" problem went away.
> 
> This problem does NOT occur with XFREE's distribution of X.  I hope
> this information will be of some use to anyone experiencing the
> "blue screen" problem.  There are lots of things that can cause
> this but here is a solution to at least one of the problems.
> 
> 
> --
> Michael J. Lynch
> 
> What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown
> 
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