On Monday 28 November 2005 03:03 am, Michael T. Dean wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm on a Athlon 64 w Gentoo and a PVR 350 card. Right now I'm using a > > separate video card for video output on an LCD monitor. I've got a > > coaxial cable plugged into the back of the PVR 350. When using "cat > > /dev/video0 > test.mpg" I get an empty file. I've tried searching the > > mailing list, googling, various setup procedures found on the net, and > > just different values but no luck. I'm not sure what's wrong and any help > > would be appreciated. I'm posting what I think is relevant dmesg output: > > ... > > >ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner > >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 > >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127 > >ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400 > >ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887 > > You have to install ivtv (for the kernel you're currently using) to use > it... > > Or, perhaps someone forgot a "depmod -ae" > > Also, to get IvyTV init info, don't use a "grep ivtv" because much of > the important stuff doesn't contain the string ivtv. Instead, use: > > tac /var/log/messages | > sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; > /= START INIT IVTV =/q' | > tac > > Fortunately, this time, the problem showed up... > > Mike > _______________________________________________
In case it helps, the output looks like: ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13.4 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (iTVC15 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr=18] lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10 ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom ivtv0: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom. ivtv0: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or ivtv0: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module. ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127 ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400 ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887 ivtv0: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC. ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 2880 x 32768 buffers (92160KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total) ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 24 x 43200 buffers (1024KB total) ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv_init_mpeg.bin ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
