Hi everyone,
First of all, thank you all for this wonderful project and the support network surrounding it. I've had my Myth box up and mostly up and running for about 6 months and it's been adopted into our regular routine by my wife. That is until yesterday.
I initially built the system using Jarod's guide. Until yesterday I was running Myth 0.16 on Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.8-1.521 and a PVR-350. Most things were working just fine (even X out to the TV), though I would have front-end crashes at leasts once a week (caused, I believe, by IVTV). Yesterday I upgraded my dedicated recordings hard drive and decided to do some tweaks (big mistake).
First of all, I installed XFCE and made that my default Window Manager. Secondly, I used Synaptic to update MythTV to 0.17 and decided, while I was there, to upgrade IVTV as well, since I was experiencing the aforementioned crashes. Everything went alright, but when I went back into Myth and watched a recording, the video (not audio) was stuttering pretty badly. I noticed in Synaptic that there was another update to IVTV (as well as MythTV) and went for it. It required a kernel update to 2.6.10, to which I agreed. It got part way and then Synaptic crashed. At that point, things started acting a little wonky - the backend didn't start up on launch, etc., so I decided to remove MythTV and IVTV entirely (using Synaptic) and start from scratch.
I went back to Jarod's FC2 guide and installed MythSuite using apt-get with no problems whatsoever. Then I went to follow the instructions for IVTV and there were no packages found for my kernel. I looked for kernel upgrades on Axel's site, but couldn't find any for FC2.
Okay, then, on to manual IVTV installation. I downloaded CK100ZZ, since Jarod recommends it as the most stable version. I did a "make install" on the "driver" directory and now I am getting a TON of ivtv-fb errors when I try to load it.
I am totally at a loss. I'm not very good with manually building and installing packages and I'm not sure I installed IVTV correctly. I don't want to wipe the drive and start from scratch and I'm already going to have to pay the piper for missing out on recording "24" tonight. ;)
Can anyone help guide me? Thanks in advance.
-Hank _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
