root@mythtv:~# modprobe ivtv
WARNING: /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv line 6: ignoring bad line starting with 'add'
WARNING: /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv line 7: ignoring bad line starting with 'add'

And yes I went through the search process. Not turning anything up very quickly.

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options ivtv debug=1
options tuner type=39
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c


When I updated the system it did not complete since I have a LVM volume and needed to fix that.

The fille appears to be exactly as I have seen many posts of. Yet I get screen after screen full of that error when it boots. What is wrong with those lines?

Everything else seems to work aside form having to adjust some directories to point at my files. Recorded TV programs are all there and show nice thumbnails but will not play. Same error, Failure to initialize. Regular Videos will play however.

If I missed a post please feel free to point it out

Asus A7V-133-c BIOS rev 1007
AMD T-Bird 1Ghz
1 gig RAM
1 Maxtor 40gig (in use)
1 Maxtor 200gig (Just sitting there)
Hauppage WinTV-PVR 250 model 980 (Model 415 Silver remote)
NVidia based video card with TV out(TV-out not in use atm)
Linksys 10/100 ethernet card
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 soundcard
Samsung DVD/CDRW combo drive

This happens when you upgrade and the old /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv comes back. I followed Cecil's advice and changed the last two lines to:

This cured it for me.

yes somewhere along the way they took out the add option, so the fact that those two lines start with the word add is the problem.

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Grr..

Okay good advice folks. I have no more ivtv errors.
However the tuner still refuses to initialize. I cannot watch Live TV and I cannot watch recorded TV. I have had no luck whatsoever with backing up myth and running the upgrade. I would expect it to load the back up with the settings that I have set but that does not appear to be the case for me. It loads a Theme I have never chosen and screws up most things with the exception of my Video library which comes back with the correct thumbnails. Hehe. I am thinking I am not going to be such a Linux newbie when this is all over.

Fortunately I have enough storage to back up the entire /myth dir on another system so I am going to wipe it clean after dinner and see where that gets me:)

That's odd. I actually haven't loaded an alpha version from scratch in quite some time and the backup restore procedure works great for me, or at least it has for the last 4 versions or so, I did have to do some of it manually for a while in the beginning.

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Okay R5A12 is loaded and mostly functional.
Doing some test recording
Will post a complete walk-thru of how I set it up and got it working tommorrow.
I would appreciate any comments or suggestions as to how to do an upgrade next time instead of a reinstall. I can only assume that I am not backing it up correctly or I am jumping into the installation too soon to make modifications, ie the nvidia installation or the LVM set-up. I have yet to get an upgrade to work.
Hopefully the walk-thru will be helpful to some of the other linux challenged folks as it pulls a lot of info from many different posts together to one spot

I just did a fresh install of R5A15.1 and I "think" i have everything setup properly but I'm having two problems.

If i connect the PVR to the TV using the svideo of my video card (GF FX5200) I can see the linux boot screen until it displays the desktop then I get a blank screen.

If I connect my monitor boot up and then connect the svideo I get a display on both. I get to the desktop but then when I click on watch live TV I get "Unable to initialize video".

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've spent this entire weekend just getting to this point.

have a look at the sample XF86Config files or search the forums this has been covered to death. or you could even search the wiki. there's a howto over there.

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OuttaTouch:


EDIT: This has been resolved.

I'd be really interested in hearing what you did to resolve the "unable to initialize video" error, and get video on Myth. I haven't been able to resolve that yet with my PVR-150 and R5A12.

shplad

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nVidia Geforce 6600GT
Samsung Spinpoint SATA 120GB
NEC ND-3520A DVD
Seasonic Super Tornado 350
BTC 9019URF Wireless Kbd. w. Joystick

I have done the upgrade and everything works now but you also have to comment out the option lines.

I also had to comment out the install and remove lines at the bottom that other people have working?
Mind you I get my input though from a sat box on the s-video input and don't use the tuner.

This post may help from hints and tips

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4325

good luck!

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