Asciimonster Wrote: > Lischka wrote: > > >I bought a PVR-350 and tried it out on my main desktop setting up > >Knoppmyth on a partition on an old 40Gb disk that was lying > around). > >This went reasonably well although I had a lot of trouble setting up > >the UK tv grabber. After many abortive attempts, the Knoppmyth hard > >disk failed, so I tried again under Gentoo (my main distro). > Again I > >got pretty close to where I wanted to be, but a different set of > >problems (2.6.4 and lirc didnt seem to be compatible). > Anyway, I got > >some TV shows successfully recorded, and even got myth > through TV-Out > >onto the TV screen. > > > >Has anyone got any ideas what to try next? > > > >Any more diagnostic info to give me a clue as to what is wrong? > > > >Oh yes, I tried compiling the latest ivtv-0.3.2a drivers but > it made no > >difference. > > > With the 0.1 versions, I had intermittently sound and no > sound with my > Myth box. I used this hack which worked for me: > > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -v input=7,output=1 > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -v input=2,output=2 > > The 0.3 versions are experimental (that means unstable) at > the moment. > Better try 0.2.0rc3c. _______________________________________________
All very well and good but the pvr-350 doesn't (or didn't) work with X over the tv out with 0.2.0rc3c and FC3 I'm running kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and 0.3.1z (patched for ivtv-fb on 2.6.9 kernels) One (stupid) thing I did was expect the sound to come out of the soundcard, If you're using the tv out of the pvr-350 the sound comes out of that too. Have you tried cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg then playing it back (on another machine maybe that's known to playback with sound)? Also make 10000% sure you are using the correct msp3400.ko, do the following to check: cd /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3 find . -print | grep msp34 Check to see what is loaded by lsmod | grep msp Check to see what will be loaded by doing modprobe -l | grep msp The FIRST one in this list will be loaded. FWIW the line I use in my crontab (and works) for mythfilldatabase in the UK is (skipping the actual time to run) /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file /home/mythtv/.mythtv/Terrestrial.xmltv | /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 -1 - I have had mythtv up and running fine but at the moment mythbackend keeps crashing (an issue I believe is due to the xfs journaling partition I have /video on) but more importantly the box has just started to keep crashing[0][1][2] and I need to sort that out before I start playing with mythtv again :-( HTH Druid [0] Up for 20days+ now crashing up to twice a day, I'm not sure if it's something I've done or something's broken. :-( [1] With no error messages anywhere :-( [2] I'm trying stress testing it with various things to confirm the hardware + O/S is stable but I suspect it's hardware :-(
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