Where do I start? I gave up on the dual drive install for now. I'm one HDisk.

System:
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PIII-850 w/512MB
IDE 123.5GB Disk
hdTV-3000
PVR-350 w/IR rcvr plugged into IR port.
nVidia MX400 PCI
SoundBlaster ISA (See below)
VGA monitor (for now, eventually TV)

Everything's installed.

I *think* I have it all configured right.


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Is it normal for hdTV to be Video32 and PVR-350 to be on Video0?

In the logs, I see complaints about not being able to open Video1 when there is no video1.
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Alsa can't find either of my SoundBlaster cards. (Vibra16 and AWE32-PNP) even though the kernel lists them no problem on Boot. And the kernel also finds the GamePort on the sound card just fine. Grrr..

/var/log/messages
Mar 3 22:53:11 mythtv-master kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Mar 3 22:53:11 mythtv-master kernel: pnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
Mar 3 22:53:11 mythtv-master kernel: isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP'
Mar 3 22:53:11 mythtv-master kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total

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IR Remote doesn't seem to work.

1) LIRC doesn't have a startup file in /etc/init.d (can someone email me their's? thanks)

2) If I start lircd by hand - irw just returns to a prompt and in the logs there's some gripe about the bridge needing to have ETBF (or some such enabled) !?!? See the logs below


/var/log/lircd
Mar 3 22:19:20 mythtv-master lircd 0.7.0: lircd(hauppauge) ready
Mar 3 22:19:44 mythtv-master lircd 0.7.0: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
Mar 3 22:19:44 mythtv-master lircd 0.7.0: could not open /dev/lirc
Mar 3 22:19:44 mythtv-master lircd 0.7.0: default_init(): No such device
Mar 3 22:19:44 mythtv-master lircd 0.7.0: caught signal

and
/var/log/messages
Mar 3 21:59:16 mythtv-master kernel: lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
Mar 3 21:59:16 mythtv-master kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
Mar 3 21:59:16 mythtv-master kernel: bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
Mar 3 21:59:16 mythtv-master kernel: bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
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When I try and watch live-tv - there's a blank screen - but considering
how other things aren't working yet... I'm not shocked.

Any help?

Thanks in advance,

-Ben

yes it is usual for hd3000 cards to be video32, however I had to use /dev/dtv1 to find this you can cat /var/log/messages | grep dtv sometimes its /dev/dtv0 just depends on your slots module load order etc, but that command will tell you where yours was detected.

for the lirc stuff see cesmans post about the alphas. this is known issues and has been covered more times than I care to remember.

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I show a dtv0 in messages.

So where am I enterting dtv0 as a device? in the initial config or in the settings for the frontend?

Also, the hdTV3000 cards ALSO come with an IR port for the back. I'm just hoping that lirc in trying it's I2C driver isn't expecting/grabbing the wrong port. (sigh)


And, I'm under the understanding Myth will use the PVR-350's MPEG encoder, but I haven't seen a reference on how to enable it (which I found in Myth) or more importantly, what device it should be looking for. Anyone know??

-- And I forgot to mention the PVR-350 has an FM radio. I see "radio" devices in /dev - but I'm guessing that's not supported. (I wonder if the PVR-350's radio supports RDS which is really up and happening in Chicago now.)



I've been trying to scour the information on lirc, but sometimes the most basic question is still not spelled out. It's hard to tell which posts are pertinent with the subject headings that result from searching.




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On another side note: SSH sessions from windows using PuTTY crash upon logging in. Anyone else see this?

I'm really (and I mean REALLY) looking forward to getting this stuff running... but wow - what a learning curve. The install disk is a blessing - but if it only worked all the way.

Hey - I noticed at least gcc is in this distro. I haven't checked to see if it works... but I've always wanted to compile up NTP to use a GPS as a clock source (and NTP will do it using the NMEA over RS232)...

I used the /dev/dtv0 when I setup the card in mythtv-setup. I had to type it in manually you can't just scroll to it.

You'll just have to search for the pvr350 output, I'll let you know now it's a bear to configure, and I've not heard of anyone trying to pump hdtv through it.

I have a hd3000 and a pvr250 and the ir port on the 250 works just fine, so I don't think anything on the hd3000 is interfearing with lirc for you. most likely you have one of the new remotes or haven't loaded lirc as explained in the release posts.

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Ahh! I thought the "scrolling" function was there to make things a little more intuitive... (see all these blank dev's? you want the one with something printed next to it. )



I'm trying to use it just in leu of not having a fast system. It's specifically mentioned in the Myth Docs as being something to drastically reduce CPU usage. So that's my goal.

But at least *knowing* that some of the dev's I have to type in by hand helps a lot.



Also good to know. I have a Gray remote that came with the PVR-350.
I didn't "install" anything as far as lirc is concerned. It's already on there - but seemingly in pieces (like no startup file in /etc/init.d/ ) but all the other
components are in and according to the docs/comments I can find, lsmod and /dev/ show all the right things... it just doesn't stay running.


-Ben

yes if you read the sticky post from when the first R5A9 was released it tells how to do the lirc stuff. you have to add some stuff to some files, it's all there. I know that lirc is a pain right now, but these are preview releases for a reason. It's being worked on.

oh and if you follow those instructions and it still doesn't work make sure you don't have the silver remote if so you'll have to search for hauppage silver remote to find instructions on getting that to work.

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Heheh, Will do - I know I saw that stuff somewhere...




Eek! an excellent point... Now that I think about it and inspect it closer, mine is "silvery" with a black bottom half. - I'll look around to see if there's some way to tell the "silver" versus "gray".

I need to stop doing this stuff late at night.

Thanks for the help.... I'll see what I can accomplish over the weekend.

someone posted pictures of the two remotes, so a search of the forum should help there

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe the PVR-350 video out will play HDTV content from the HD-3000. It just can't handle the output resolution needed for HDTV.

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Even if the PVR-350 could play HD content (which I agree is unlikely), you're only going to get standard-definition output from it, so everything will end up being 480i.

I realize and wouldn't expect an NTSC card to crank out HD content. The HDtv-3000 does have svideo (and I think NTSC) for output...

For now, I'm just looking at the utilization of the card for dealing with the HDtv bitstream to a normal TV...

-Ben

no the pchdtv3000 does not have anything for output, it is a capture only card. any output is the responsibility of your video card or some other video output device.

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