[mythtv-users] missing /dev/dri

Cyber Source peter at cybersource.us
Wed Oct 26 15:49:04 EDT 2005


Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Cyber Source wrote:
>
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>
>>>> no sound no anything. I can hear the drive crunching, look in the 
>>>> directory that the recording is going into, and watch it grow, just 
>>>> it is only recording a black screen, no video, no audio. I have 
>>>> started mythfrontend with -v all option and looking at that see 
>>>> that it is bitching about audio rates that it wants and cant have 
>>>> and that it is dropping frames, so I suspect that it's a sound 
>>>> issue. I had it configured with the onboard via sound card, then 
>>>> installed a sound blaster live, still same results. Sound works 
>>>> fine for watching tv and all other sound functions. Also, if I run 
>>>> "cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/someshow.mpg, it records beautifully with 
>>>> sound, etc. I must have some setting wrong in my myth record 
>>>> options but this is a pvr-350 and initially thought I had something 
>>>> wrong with the ivtv modules. I have
>>>> AMD 3000+, FC4, 512MB RAM, 2.6.13-1352 kernel with all options 
>>>> installed as per wilsonet.com/mythtv.
>>>> Not real familiar with ivtv, I thought that maybe it was trying to 
>>>> record using a different device node, whatever. At this point I am 
>>>> really frustrated, any thoughts? TIA
>>>>
>>> Change your recording profiles in Myth.  You should specify an 
>>> appropriate audio sample rate--use 48KHz.
>>>
>>> Won't fix your /dev/dri problem, but should allow you to watch 
>>> recordings.
>>
>>
>> I did that first off, I remember that from long ago.
>>
> Did you do that in all of your profiles?  It sounds like you did it 
> for LiveTV, but not for the Default profile.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
This might be a clue, I always remember under system status, it saying 
under tuner status that tuner 0 is not recording, it says tuner 1 now, I 
only have 1 tuner, where can this be checked and changed?

-- 
cybersource.us
                         115 Richfield Road
               Williamsville, New York 14221
                            716-553-8525


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list