[gentoo-user] Re: OT - MythTV problems

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:35 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> This morning I discovered my MythTV wasn't working.  I tracked the
> problem down to ivtv.  I was using ivtv-0.4.5 with
> kernel-2.6.15-gentoo-r1.  I remerged ivtv-0.4.5 and remodprobed ivtv,
> but it still didn't work (something about bad module format.)  Anyway, I
> built a 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 kernel and installed ivtv-0.7.0 and rebooted
> with the new kernel.  ivtv will modprobe now, but I'm still having the
> same problems with myth.  Here's the output:
>
> michael@camille ~ $ mythfrontend
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.567 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.581 XScreenSaver support enabled
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.622 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.628 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.631 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.636 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.648 Current Schema Version: 1123
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.649 mythfrontend version: 0.19.20060121-2
> www.mythtv.org
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.649 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.807 lang0: eng
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.807 lang: eng
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.839 lang1: eng
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.840 lang: eng
> 2006-09-15 10:27:12.998 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
> 2006-09-15 10:27:13.000 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
> 2006-09-15 10:27:13.002 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2006-09-15 10:27:13.530 Joystick disabled.
> 2006-09-15 10:27:13.547 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
> 2006-09-15 10:27:14.229 Starting media monitor.
> 2006-09-15 10:27:17.992 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2006-09-15 10:27:17.993 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.052 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.3:6543
> (try 1 of 5)
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.062 Using protocol version 26
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.095 TV: Attempting to change from None to
> WatchingLiveTV
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.110 Using protocol version 26
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.193 GetEntryAt(-1) failed.
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.195 EntryToProgram(0@Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969)
> failed to get pginfo
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.195 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.195 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
> 2006-09-15 10:27:18.210 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor
>
> Here's kernel and ivtv info:
>
> camille ~ # emerge -pv ivtv
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-tv/ivtv-0.7.0  0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> camille ~ # uname -a
> Linux camille 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Fri Sep 15 09:56:25 CDT 2006 i686
> Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz GNU/Linux
> camille ~ #
>
> I cat /dev/video0 > temp.mpg and watched it, but there wasn't anything
> there.  What I mean is, although there was a black background in
> gmplayer, I didn't see any TV programming.  Can anyone help with this?

I forgot to mention, here are the contents of /etc/modules.d/ivtv:

alias char-major-81     videodev
alias char-major-81-0   ivtv
alias char-major-81-1   ivtv
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
#add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c


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