On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 17:56 -0500, Richard Hendershot wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 17:05 -0400, Bill Baker wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:09 -0500, Richard Hendershot wrote: > > > My video devices are owned by my login user, root group. can you sudo > > > cat /dev/video0 > tst.mpg ? or perhaps this trace was while you > > > logged in as root? > > > > Logging in as root did the trick, although all I got was a few seconds > > of a black screen. So I at least chown'd my /dev/video* devices to the > > mythtv group. > make sure they're RW for that group. Mine have no group permissions. > I think it's udev that sets these to be owned by me (as a regular > user) when I login.
After I rebooted, I found that the video devices had been changed back to the root group, and from the Fedora Myth(TV)ology web page, it seems like that's normal. > > > I don't load the framebuffer nor lirc. I'm ignoring the mplayer deal > > > at this point since it sounds broken. capturing the stream is a good > > > test. > > > > > > All I have in my modprobe.conf is for snd and eth0. Since a lot of > > > this is in the kernel I don't think anything is needed. I'm not sure > > > about FB and LIRC though. I'd suggest taking that all out and seeing > > > what works, add it back in one at a time. I have an all-encompassing > > > (or encompassing enough for my needs ;) mod removal that I use to dump > > > ivtv related modules so I can load fresh. your needs are probably a > > > little different but here goes, fyi > > > > > > /sbin/rmmod ivtv bttv cx8800 cx88xx cx25840 tuner tveeprom msp3400 > > > wm8775 tda9887 saa7115 saa7127 > > > /sbin/depmod -a > > > /sbin/modprobe ivtv > > > > Unfortunately, all that did was to make it return to the main MythTV > > screen faster after I pressed "Watch TV". > > Using MythTV to troubleshoot adds a lot of indirection and > abstraction. There's a lot of mention in the ivtv readme's about > making sure to cold boot (leaving the machine off for a minute or more > before powering up again), the framebuffer device interacting with the > driver > "3. The framebuffer will not allow direct writing safely, it > will mess up > encoding and decoding, usually making the chip inoperable > until another > reboot." > , and that module options are not necessary most all of the time. > > what do you get from > grep -A 11 ivtv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf driver: ivtv desc: "Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder" vendorId: 4444 deviceId: 0803 subVendorId: 0070 subDeviceId: 4000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: a pcifn: 0 - > ..which kudzu places into this file on boot. I don't think you need > anything about ivtv in modprobe.conf I think all you need are the > eth0 and usb-controller lines, until ivtv is working, then put lirc > back in then put ivtv_fb back in. I tried commenting those lines out and rebooting, but it didn't make a difference. > btw, in the docs, the first node (char-major-81) is videodev, not > ivtv. the minor node (char-major-81-0) is ivtv > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > ...so if you keep these, this might have an effect. I saw that on the page and changed the modprobe.conf file to reflect that. > Do you have videodev module loaded? > > [sys]# /sbin/lsmod |grep ivtv > ivtv 160400 0 > v4l1_compat 11973 1 ivtv > tveeprom 13905 1 ivtv > videodev 9409 1 ivtv > i2c_core 20673 9 > msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,tda9887,tuner,ivtv,tveeprom,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801 > [sys]# I sure do. # lsmod | grep ivtv ivtv_fb 26980 0 ivtv 179216 1 ivtv_fb v4l1_compat 13381 1 ivtv tveeprom 14673 1 ivtv i2c_core 21825 7 msp3400,saa7127,saa7115,tda9887,tuner, ivtv,tveeprom videodev 9537 1 ivtv > > > btw- If you'd built ivtv from sources you probably have detritus in > > > usr/local. Maybe you're loading old msp or other modules from there, > > > so another suggestion would be to make certain the ivtv stuff is all > > > in one place and the stuff you want it to be. > > > > Actually, I just followed the instructions at > > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php > > I didn't build any packages at all. > That one's a little out of date. Can you suggest a better site? I'm also open to using other distributions. I've tried KnoppMyth and Fedora so far, with no luck. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
