[mythtv-users] pcHDV3000 stop working, and x server exit crash on upgrade to 0.19 trunk

[john sturgeon]

On 5/25/06, Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
>
> Well, I had not upgraded for a while, and decided to switch to the latest
> svn trunk.   Having a few issues, thought I would see if anybody else
> has had them.
>
> 1) Worst issue -- the pchdtv 3000 card in the master server is no longer
> working.   It's acting like there is no signal, but if I do
> "mplayer /dev/video32" I can see the video just fine and signal is
> good.  Myth reports 0% signal in live tv mode, recordings don't record
> a file, but nor do they abort.     I am using the same drivers and
> 2.6.9 kernel as I did before, not DVB.   I will perhaps go to the 2.6.15
> kernel and dvb, but that's a bunch of work (redo hard fought nvidia, redo
> chanel mappings etc.)
>
> 2) On the slave server, pretty much identical in config, when mythtvfrontend
> terminates, the X server crashes, with minimal diagnostics.
>     "Fatal server error: Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
> Any attempt to terminate myth causes this, including ctrl^C on
> the terminal session that invoked frontend.   Nothing else has changed
> but the myth upgrade.   I do not have the exit option to take the
> system down.
>
> 3) Minimalist-wide is oddly acting worse than a year ago.  All images
> vanish if you move over them.  Somtimes it puts the x server in
> another strange mood, looking like 8 bit colour, but if you switch
> the focus to another window the colours look ok.   I switched to
> mythcenter-wide though I have not yet figured how to customize
> list colours in it.   this is thus pretty minor.
>
>
> Any thoughts?   I re ran mythtv-setup but did not yet destroy and
> recreate the atsc card.
>
>
> The pvr250 in the slave server is working fine.

The DVB drivers for the pcHDTV HD-3000 have been rock solid, and
support in MythTV for DVB just seems to be getting better and better.
I would recommend moving over.

Problems #2 and #3 completely baffle me.

-- 
John Sturgeon <><