On 14/01/2005 Michael T. Dean wrote: > Don't manually load them (see below). It was good for testing, but now > you've given enough information to explain what was happening, so it's > no longer necessary (and likely to cause more problems than it solves)...
ah, so this damaged my monitor. it's broken now (too large mode), so i definitely hope that this doesn't happen again. i'll load ivtv directly from now on, to prevent those incidents. > That explains why tveeprom wasn't loading correctly--the bttv module > (which your modprobe.conf said to load upon access of char-major-81) was > loading eeprom before ivtv was able to load tveeprom--exactly as the > error message stated. > > Now that you've corrected your modprobe.conf, make sure you load ivtv by > issuing the command, "modprobe ivtv" and nothing else. ok, just to go sure, i have in my modules.conf: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv videodev is compiled into kernel here, and i'm using kernel 2.6.10 now. > Actually, that command belongs inside modprobe.conf. It will not > execute properly from the command line (as you see below). It simply > says to install ivtv-fb after installing ivtv. If you're not using the > TV out, don't put it in there. i planned to enable TV out in future, to see the screen on my Television, but i intended to concentrate on TV in first. > Notice no module loading problems. > > May be because you're using a Via motherboard. If it's something older > than the KT-400 (and all the other 400-series) motherboards (especially > the 266's and 133's), that's almost definitely going to be a problem. > Although it's getting better (thanks to Chris), I still think the $40 I > spent on a cheap SiS-based motherboard was the best $40 I spent. I > couldn't run for more than 15 minutes (on a good day--average was less > than 5) without a hard system lock. so i'm using the VIA K8T Neo (K8T800 chipset) motherboard with an AMD Athlon64 3200+ processor, and as mentioned matrox mga g400 graphic controller. are there known problems with this hardware? > As of now, you have your hardware configured correctly (with the > possible exception of the tda9887 option--which would not affect > stability, only tuning capability), so if you stick with the Via MB, you > may be in for a long difficult journey trying to make it work. IMHO, > $40 (or even $100) for a new motherboard is far less expensive than the > time you'll spend trying to make the system work. so can you recommend any athlon64 mainboard that is known to work well with ivtv drivers? > BTW, using the PVR-350's TV out on a Via makes an unstable system even > less stable. If you're not using it, don't install ivtv-fb (i.e. leave > the line above out of modprobe.conf). so i'll not load ivtv-fb any more, at least as long as i don't use TV out. i'll give ivtv-0.3.0a a try in the next days, and report how it worked. bye jonas ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users
