Re: [ivtv-devel] Random reboots

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Carland
On Sep 20, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Brad Babb wrote: Hello everyone, I?m having a problem getting mythtv to work on my system. It spontaneously reboots after anywhere from 5 to about 20 minutes of watching live TV. It seems to happen more quickly if I record a listing and try to watch live TV at t

Re: [ivtv-devel] spontaneous reboots with 0.3.7d

2005-08-15 Thread Michael Carland
On Aug 15, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Mr. Myth wrote: I have ( had ) two PVR-250's that were working great with 0.3.6w from Axel. I purchased a PVR-500 as a replacement because I needed the extra slot. I tried it with 0.3.6w but had many issues getting both tuners to work. I had read the 0.3.7 se

[ivtv-devel] Static on first tuner of PVR-500 after upgrade

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Carland
Howdy, I just upgraded from 3.6x to 3.7b, and after a cold reboot, I had a working tuner2 (from Myth), but only dark static on tuner1. I did another cold reboot (~2 minutes off time in both cases), and the problem went away. I had a similar problem when I installed 3.6x, but didn't keep trac

[ivtv-devel] Should 3.6 series compile with gcc-2.95?

2005-07-08 Thread Michael Carland
Greetings. I am still suffering from spontaneous reboots, with nothing being logged, and have been grasping at straws for the last few weeks. My latest road to destruction is to try compiling my kernel and modules with gcc-2.95, as I've found many references to that being *the* compiler to us

Re: [ivtv-devel] Tvout ( A / V output) manual

2005-07-02 Thread Michael Carland
On Jul 2, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Oscar Curero wrote: Hi, Reading the instructions that came with the pvr-350 I've found this: " Plug the 9-pin DIN connector on the A/V output cable into the A/V output connector on the WinTV-PVR-350. **This connector is 'keyed' so you cannot plug it in backwards

Re: [ivtv-devel] Possible OT: Spontaneous reboots

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 23, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Andrew Ziobro wrote: If this is something you could try, I'd be interested to hear your results. If you are also able to avoid reboots by not using NFS, I'll dig deeper on that path. I also had a problem with NFS and Myth. I changed NFS to use TCP instead of UDP.

Re: [ivtv-devel] Possible OT: Spontaneous reboots

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Mike Benoit wrote: Your not alone. I'm seeing the exact same issue. It seems to mostly happen when I'm recording 2 shows and watching a 3rd on a different frontend. I too am using a VIA chipset mainboard, (KT400). I'm running a PVR-500 on ivtv 0.3.5 (k) and kernel

Re: [ivtv-devel] Possible OT: Spontaneous reboots

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:26 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: | From: Michael Carland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I have an AMD64 machine running Debian sarge with 2.6.11.7, in 32 bit mode. | It's sole purpose is to run mythbackend (.18). It has a single PVR-500MCE with | ivtv 0.3.6e. I ha

Re: [ivtv-devel] Possible OT: Spontaneous reboots

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Michael Carland wrote: I have an AMD64 machine running Debian sarge with 2.6.11.7, in 32 bit mode. It's sole purpose is to run mythbackend (.18). It has a single PVR-500MCE with ivtv 0.3.6e. I have a second PVR-500 I'd like to add, but am trying

[ivtv-devel] Possible OT: Spontaneous reboots

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Carland
Hello, I'm not 100% certain this is caused by ivtv, but this list wins the friendliest/most knowledgeable contest, and the prize is my question. I have an AMD64 machine running Debian sarge with 2.6.11.7, in 32 bit mode. It's sole purpose is to run mythbackend (.18). It has a single PVR-500M

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:24 PM, ivtv wrote: Actually try 0.3.6d, and don't change anything, I hopefully fixed this so it won't be needed, although if still a problem, there's a new module parameter ivtv_dynbuf which you can set to '0' and turn that off (plus fixed a bug which I think made thin

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:24 PM, ivtv wrote: Actually try 0.3.6d, and don't change anything, I hopefully fixed this so it won't be needed, although if still a problem, there's a new module parameter ivtv_dynbuf which you can set to '0' and turn that off (plus fixed a bug which I think made thin

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:37 PM, ivtv wrote: Try changing the DYNAMIC buffer define in ivtv-driver.h to 0, just search for DYNAMIC and you'll find it in there, it seems dynamic memory allocation is failing in heavy usage situations and things aren't coping very well. Thanks, Chris mrwester wrot

Re: [ivtv-devel] Spontaneous reboot or echo

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Carland
On May 11, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Sergey Alexandrov wrote: Try to turn off VBI in Myth. I had the similar "echo" problem. Do not forget to reload ivtv drivers On 5/11/05, Michael Carland < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Howdy. I'm having a problem, and am still trying to narrow it do

[ivtv-devel] Spontaneous reboot or echo

2005-05-11 Thread Michael Carland
Howdy. I'm having a problem, and am still trying to narrow it down, but I thought I'd post the symptoms in case this is a know problem. I'm using a PVR-500 with an AMD64 in 32 bit mode, kernel 2.6.11.7, and MythTV. The PVR-500 is in a master backend, and I am using a separate frontend to watch

Re: [ivtv-devel] where to buy PVR 500?

2005-04-05 Thread Michael Carland
I recently bought two. One was from BLT, whose web site says they no longer carry them, and one from buy.com, which took 6 weeks to ship (BLT took 2 weeks, but was ordered later, both shipped the same day). http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10386574&loc=101&hdwt=5&sp=1 There were othe

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: filled up disk - had to restart backend & reload ivtv driver

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
--- Brian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for reference, I fill my hard drive every couple of days, and have > to clean stuff off. The worst I have to do is restart the backend. Never > have to do anything with the drivers. > When my drive filled, I was unable to delete recorded items f

Re: [ivtv-devel] south park and vonage commercials, mpeg artifacts

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Carland
This is an easy one. Turn on auto skip of commercials. :) --- Brent Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently I have noticed a few vey minor glitches. Some may say I'm > being > anal about it, but I'm in the "tweaking" phase of my mythtv projects, so > please bear with me. > > On the Sou

Re: [ivtv-devel] Help - PVR 150 - Tuner LG S001D MK3

2005-03-27 Thread Michael Carland
--- Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So looks like it's set to PAL-BG now for me as well (what I need); I > thought I'd set this in my modprobe.conf (options tuner pal=G) but > that doesn't seem to have any effect. Need to have a further look into > this. I think with a 2.6 kernel you nee

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500mce tuner 1=works great; tuner 2=nothing

2005-03-24 Thread Michael Carland
--- John Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like your not loading the correct tuner.ko and tveeprom.ko... > > > tveeprom: The eeprom says no radio is present, but the tuner type > > tveeprom: indicates otherwise. I will assume that radio is present. > > tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23552,

[ivtv-devel] 500MCE static only from tuner

2005-03-23 Thread Michael Carland
Sorry if this gets posted twice. I sent it this morning and haven't seen it since... The only thing new since the previous post is I was able to confirm I can get an image from the composite input using "-p 2", and I tried the following grid of configurations, all with no success: tuner=57 NTSC n

[ivtv-devel] Re: 500MCE static only from tuner

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Carland
> I am getting static on the tuner, both in Myth and by copying from > /dev/video0 and playing in VLC. I pulled my sound card and a firewire card I wasn't using, and moved the 500MCE over a slot, and bingo, it now works. No software config changes required. -Michael __