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: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 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([EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
