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On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 08:50 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: |
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> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:17:27 -0600 |
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> Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I tried the test "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" and opening it in mplayer |
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> > and all I got was the blank screen. |
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> Blank screen indicates no signal. |
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> > I tried it with /dev/video24 and |
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> > got static |
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> Typical tuner input, no channel, aka white noise. |
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> > and with /dev/video32 I got weird polygonal images. |
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> Probably a station close by, but not tuned in - a tuner input or possible the FM radio |
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> port. |
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> > I think |
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> > mythfrontend is freezing up after that 1.5 seconds because it takes |
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> > awhile to get back to the menu screen. Why is /dev/video spitting out |
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> > nothing now, when it was just fine before I followed the mythtv howto? |
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> > |
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> Typically a channel and input needs to be switched on before anything will display. |
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> Another way to test is to listen if there is audio, but the screen is still blank. That indicates |
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> an incorrect display setting, possibly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. |
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> Bob |
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I managed to get the cat /dev/video0 test to work by issuing "ivtvctl -p |
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4" (4 is my tuner), but it won't work with mythtv - all I get is the |
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blank screen. That and my mythbackend keeps dying. It leaves no log |
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files. How can I diagnose why it's dying? You've mentioned more than |
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once that the problem might be with my xorg.conf file. That file was |
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generated by X -configure. What changes would I need to make to the |
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xorg.conf file? |
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