So I had mythtv up and working with a PVR350 with all output going to my tv and was quite pleased with myself. I am an absolute novice with linux and less than competent with hardware and driver configeration. So there I was feeling absolutely pleased with myself when all of a sudden I turned on the tv and only had a blue screen. I have mythtv sending the signal to a vcr with my satellite signal split to the myth box and the vcr so I can change channels directly without having it buffered (my next project is to get the ir receiver to change dish's sat receiver to change channels).
Well, I was at a complete loss. I searched the forum, I checked logs (found some ivtv warnings) and was completely frozen with fear that I was going to screw everything up worse. During this time I was still able to access my box via putty and mythweb. So I rebooted. Things only got worse, I was no longer able to ssh in. I was devastated. I started thinking I needed to upgrade the ivtv driver from 4.3 to 4.4.
In preparation for the drastic measure I was going to take I hooked up a monitor and started the box hoping that I would be able to understand what the error messages told me.
Lucky for me, I can actually read. My first error message told me the box couldn't find the keyboard and it was waiting for me to tell it what to do. When I did a little snooping, I found my keyboard was no longer connected in the back of the box. Once I got the keyboard connected, well lo and behold everything booted up. I was able to ssh in and even open an xwindows session on my windows machine to check the setup configurations in mythtv frontend. But still no video on the tv just the blue screen.
Again in preparation for the drastic measure I was about to take I decided to test the cables to verify that they still worked (at this point I was hoping desperately that they wouldn't. I can shop much better than I can recompile a driver). So I bypassed the vcr and sent the output from the pvr350 card directly to the tv. And lo and behold I could see mythfrontent. I finally figured out that I had mistakenly pushed a button on the vcr remote and it was no longer switching inputs on the vcr but on the tv to the video in source that didn't have anything hooked up to it.
So to make a long story a bit longer, the problems I was having had nothing to do with mythtv, knoppix or even with computers at all. It was related to my inability to properly plug in a keyboard and use a remote properly (for all you smart *sses, no comments on the fact that I am a woman).
Although this posting probably won't help anyone solve any problems they are having, it should at least make someone feel a little less foolish. Everyone other than me of course
Thank you everyone for contributing to this project and forum. I could never have gotten my system to work at all if it hadn't been for the time that people have put into developing this project and posting their howto's and advice on this forum.
Julie
Have a lot of faith in KM as it is very solid. As for the keyboard, you may be able to turn off the stop on keyboard error in the cmos. I also turn off the floppy test at boot.
