Hello, I feel that I'm almost there. I have finally got a live TV picture on the screen. Alas, it only lasts for a couple of seconds, then it freezes and after a while I'm back in the main menu.
I'm running MythTV on an AMD64 configured as an Athlon-XP. However, I have configured the kernel to use frequency stepping with the new 'conservative' driver, in the Power Management Options -> CPU Frequency Scaling. Here's an excerpt from the kernel documentation (v2.6.12-gentoo-r6): # 'conservative' - this driver is rather similar to the 'ondemand' # governor both in its source code and its purpose, the difference is # its optimisation for better suitability in a battery powered # environment. The frequency is gracefully increased and decreased # rather than jumping to 100% when speed is required. # If you have a desktop machine then you should really be considering # the 'ondemand' governor instead, however if you are using a laptop, # PDA or even an AMD64 based computer (due to the unacceptable # step-by-step latency issues between the minimum and maximum frequency # transitions in the CPU) you will probably want to use this governor. The beauty of this driver approach is of course that the box is _very_ quiet when not working. I'm not quite sure if this is directly related to my problem, because I can force the CPU to spin up with another program, like setting mencoder to transcode a file for about a minute, press Ctrl-C, and immediately start "Watch TV" in Myth. This makes no difference at all. Below is a terminal dump from mythfrontend. I haven't bothered getting LIRC to work yet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend 2005-07-29 12:01:20.028 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1280, height=1024, numscreens=1 2005-07-29 12:01:20.032 Using screen 0, 1280x1024 at 0,0 2005-07-29 12:01:20.034 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-07-29 12:01:20.034 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2005-07-29 12:01:20.165 Switching to square mode (blue) 2005-07-29 12:01:20.610 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-07-29 12:01:20.616 Registering MythDVD DVD Media Handler as a media handler 2005-07-29 12:01:20.617 Registering MythDVD VCD Media Handler as a media handler mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: Connection refused lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2005-07-29 12:01:20.691 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler 2005-07-29 12:01:26.024 New DB connection, total: 2 2005-07-29 12:01:26.052 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2005-07-29 12:01:26.060 Using protocol version 15 2005-07-29 12:01:26.087 Using protocol version 15 2005-07-29 12:01:28.472 Opening audio device 'default'. 2005-07-29 12:01:28.487 Using XV port 69 2005-07-29 12:01:28.711 Realtime priority would require SUID as root. 2005-07-29 12:01:28.731 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering 2005-07-29 12:01:28.734 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait 2005-07-29 12:01:29.504 prebuffering pause 2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-07-29 12:01:48.732 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. ASSERT: "i <= nodes" in /usr/qt/3/include/qvaluelist.h (373) 2005-07-29 12:01:48.737 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2005-07-29 12:01:48.737 ReadStringList: Bad socket Remote encoder not responding. 2005-07-29 12:01:48.802 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None 2005-07-29 12:01:48.808 Changing from None to None I live in Norway, a PAL country, and have altered the Live TV output format to 720x576 per the instructions at <url:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV>. That doesn't help either. Any hints? -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/
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