As I lay in bed last night with dreams of a working myth solution I sat bolt right up in bed at 3am and it hit me. What if the presence of the ATI Radeon 9600SE was throwing a curve at this whole install? There may be some out there that will probably say "Naw couldn't be...". Well the 9600 has S-video out and maybe it was throwing a wrench into everything else. I am here to tell you I dug through my box of retired componenets and pulled out my trusty old S3 Trio 64+ PCI card and yanked the Radeon. I am happily sitting on my couch right now watching TV over my PVR-350 card.
Problems addressed and solutions: Problem #1: "Once I install anything that deals with an alsa update from AT good bye S/PDIF. Noted earlier was working fine before ATrpms. (Doesn't matter aRts off or on, alsamixer kmix no matter what setting there is nothing) I can get sound from the PC speakers, but the digital out to my receiver goes away. I have read the alsa pages, customized .asoundrc – doesn't matter. ATrpms makes that connection go into never never land. The onboard chip on the motherboard for soundmax is intel8xo and from what I have read is an Analog devices piece. Problem? Yes Show stopper? No. Moving on" Fix: Colin wrote that he had analog working and no S/PDIF. Yeah me too. Don't know why, but it does get clobbered with the latest alsa stuff. Well it's not a fix as much as it is cheating. I just simply disabled the onboard audio and stuck in my old trusty SB Live! 5.1 and used Jarod's files. It works! Problem 2: "When running a stock 770 kernel lirc works great with /usr/bin/irw. Upgrading to ATrpms lastest kernel it bombs. I get this in my /var/log/messages:" Fix: Huh? What? Don't know. Remove the ATI card and it works great now????????? Go figure????????? Problem 3: "Problem 3: X on the TV. The redhat in the lower left corner is almost not even seen and the date and time are completely gone. I read a blog where a guy had run some ivtvctl commands to adjust X on his TV and provided his settings for PAL. He said to tweak with them to get NTSC to line up right. I tried half a dozen hex combinations and moved X all over the place and at times turned X green and purple, but never quite got it dialed in where I felt it was totally usable. I used vnc and a laptop to get through some of the stuff, but always felt this wasn't quite right. I thought that perhaps using vnc may be causing some issues so I decided to work through setting up myth through the TV. (I have done this using a display attached to my video card as well and it never made a difference. I still never got myth going.) I used mkinitrd from Jarod and have the PVR-350 as the standard out. (I don't want a monitor in my den unless I am dealing with DVD home movies and winblows)" Fix: Notta. It's about the same as it was. I can live with that though. I can tweak those registers around to move the redhat in closer and the date/time, but man did I dig myself a hole the last time I dinked with that. I literally rendered X on the 350 completely tossed. It works using defaults. I'm happy. Good enough. Problem 4: "mythtvsetup? Wtf? The next buttons don't work. The first question about clearing the cards config. I select yes and press the space bar. It acts like it should. Tab to next and press the spacebar and nothing. The only way I got to the next screen was alt-f4. That happened on the next screen as well. In the following screens I had to be in an area that can be changed and press the enter key to move to the next screen" Fix: Thank you all for letting me in on that! Duh... ; - ) Summary: Jarod you are the man! Thank you so much for all your help. I was going to paypal you, but thought you might like to have a server instead. Email me offline with a ship to and I'll send you a nice present for all the wonderful work you did with this. Thank you all! Regg
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