I spoke too soon.  rebooted and now I have no video, when I cat video0
I changed nuthen and updated nuthing.
No errors in dmesg exext for the firmware buggy message.


Mik Rose wrote:

> FYI...
> I have fixed my problem...
> Not exactly sure how I fixed it but it could be;
> updating to 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
> re-installing ivtv firmware
> adding these aliass to modprobe.conf
>    alias char-major-81 ivtv
>    alias char-major-81-0 videodev
> And rebooted.
> played a cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg and low and behold, 
> video!
>
> Now on to MythTV discussion forums...
>
> Thanks all (Chris) for the help.
>
> P.S.  Chris, you on the MythTV discussions as well? :P
>
>
> Mik Rose wrote:
>
>> Has anyone got a suggestions on resolving this issue.  It appears 
>> that everything loads correctly from dmesg.
>>
>> I have tried cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg and all i get on playback is 
>> a black screen.
>> TVTime says no signal ivtv:Invalid argument Cannot open capture 
>> device /dev/video0
>> MythTV Error getting inputs for the capture card.  Perhaps you have
>> forgotten to bind video sources to your card's inputs?
>>
>> /dev/video /dev/video0 /dev/video24 /dev/video32 all exist.
>>
>> I use a usb mouse so I tried the attaching a ps2 mouse for interrupt 
>> 12 work around I read somewhere.  No go on that.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I have not been able to get 
>> video0 open through all the trouble shooting and tribulations 
>> regarding loading the firmware.
>>
>> Here is my dmesg;
>>
>> Linux video capture interface: v1.00
>> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker 
>> http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
>> eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. 
>> Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others
>> ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
>> ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
>> ivtv:  version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading
>> ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.0
>> ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
>> ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
>> ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
>> ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based)
>> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:09.0
>> ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
>> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50]
>> tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 32552, rev B123, serial# 7164106
>> tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1236 (idx 23, type 2)
>> tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
>> tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4448 (idx 27)
>> tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
>> tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has no IR remote
>> tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61]
>> saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
>> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21]
>> msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio 
>> mode=simpler
>> ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40]
>> msp3400 0-0040: msp34xxg daemon started
>> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
>> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
>> ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011 
>> or 0x02050032.
>> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB 
>> total)
>> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB 
>> total)
>> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB 
>> total)
>> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers 
>> (2048KB total)
>> ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
>> tuner 0-0061: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and 
>> compatibles))
>> ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
>> ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
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