Mike wrote:
Richard Bronosky wrote:

So I tried to buy hardware specifically to have a good MythTV
experience.  ( See setup here http://www.bronosky.com/index.php?p=21 )
I have obviously failed.

I've installed KnoppMyth R5A16, and followed these instructions for ivtv
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4822#28248  I used
ivtv-0.3.7d.  I got HcwMakoA.ROM & HcwFalcn.rom off of the latest CD
posted on http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_mce.html

I'm getting the "reddish static fade in, fade out" problem.  I'm hearing
people talk about loading the ivtv module with different parameters.  I
don't know what loading a module is, or how to change parameters.  I
hear people talking about modules.conf and modprobe.conf...

This is just too much for me to figure out right now.  I don't feel like
I know enough to know what I need to learn.  I'm not dead set on
KnoppMyth, but I am dead set on the hardware described above.  Can
someone please tell me the easiest way to get a viewable video signal
from a PVR-500 using mplayer or something?  I just need a little victory
to feel good about this project again.


 

did you try 0.3.7g... I'm betting it is because your tuners aren't detecting correctly. I never had these problems on Debian but somebody I know had tried knoppmyth and had the exact same issues you are talking about. He gave me access where I tried to build 0.3.7c and I couldn't get it detecting the tuners right either. It seemed like something was wrong with tveeprom.ko which didn't make much sense since building it exactly the same way on debian vs knoppmyth produces 2 entirely different results.... Debian works, knoppmyth doesn't detect tuners right with a rebuild tveeprom.ko..

And for future reference, people will be able to tell you whats wrong quicker if you post the relivent info from 'dmesg' and post your configurations.

-Mike
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Wow, thanks again to all of you who have offered so much support.  I really am blown away by how well the O.S.S. concept works.

I actually had a very encouraging victory this weekend.  My wife made the mistake of going to bed early on Friday.  This means she will be asleep when I go to bed, so "why should I go sooner versus later?"  Come 1am I had followed Todd Ignasiak's advice & URL's and got /dev/video0 to deliver video to both mplayer and MythTV's "Watch Live TV"

I should have went to bed then.

But, I did notice that the video seemed to be stretched wide and 25% of the right half was out of view.  Since the instructions I was following used ivtv 0.3.2s I decided to try 0.3.7f (the latest as of then)  I lost all I had gained.  I was up until 5am trying to get it to work again.  So, now I must start over with 0.3.2s to see if I can get back where I was. Can I use symlinks for the ivtv installs?

Right now I have the following symlinks:
/lib/modules/misc/tuner.ko -> modules/2.6.11.9-chw-2/ivtv/tuner.ko
/lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin -> HcwFalcn.rom

1st, is there a problem with using either of those?  (specifically the first one.)
2nd, I would like to symlink every file that gets installed by /usr/src/ivtv-x/driver/make install &
/usr/src/ivtv-x/driver/make install to it's destination, so that I could easily test different versions of the driver by only calling a "make", and then symlinking /lib/modules/... to /usr/src/ivtv-current/... and symlinking /usr/src/ivtv-current/ to /usr/src/ivtv-x/.  Is that clear?  Can that be done?  (I'm wondering if the kernel will follow these nested links.)  What files do I need to link? (is there a way for me to find that out from the Makefile2.6?)

Please no RTFMing.  I did actually open the file /usr/src/ivtv-0.3.7f/driver/Makefile2.6 and saw the following sections "all:", "install: all", "clean:", "reload:", and "unload:". The section "install:all" seems to "find" msp3400.ko, tuner.ko, tda9887.ko, & tveeprom.ko in the /lib/modules/x/kernel directory and warn you of conflicts, but I cannot find where it actually copies those files to their destinations.

Please advise.

I'm changing the title of this thread, since I just went in a whole new direction.

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