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whoa
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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:04 pm |
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Some background - upgraded from R5A(something its been a year or two) to R5E50 (verified the ISO via MD5). The upgrade blew up halfway thru so I did a fresh install over everything which went to completion.
I love the new stuff I'm seeing, but the problem is whenever I reboot the GUI wont load (still have access via an SSH session and MythWeb) and all of my recordings have no sound.
I've searched around and tried to troubleshoot for the last week and here's what I'm seeing so far:
regarding sound:
ls -al /dev/ | grep audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 12 21:43 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 12 21:43 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 12 21:43 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 12 21:43 mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 10, 135 Jan 12 21:43 rtc
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jan 12 21:43 sequencer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Jan 12 21:43 sequencer2
lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 6916 0
snd_seq_oss 34048 0
snd_seq_midi 10400 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10240 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 50256 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_via82xx_modem 14984 0
snd_via82xx 26648 0
gameport 15368 1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec 94116 2 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus 6144 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 42912 0
snd_mixer_oss 18176 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 69380 4 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 22404 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11784 3 snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 10880 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 22944 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 10508 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 47588 13 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx_modem,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 11360 1 snd
lspci | grep -i multimedia
00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:0e.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
I don't have a /etc/modprobe.conf or a /etc/modprobe.d/sound
utilities/setup -> setup -> general -> 3rd screen is set to /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer
I've run alsaconf several times and that doesnt seem to work.
Hardware:
ASUS A7V880 (on board NIC and sound)
WD 400GB SATA HDD
AMD 3200 (I think)
1 GB RAM
NVidia 128 MB AGP video card
(Im not having an issue with Video card or CPU so I'll leave that general unless someone thinks its pretty relevent).
Previously on the R5A config everything was working well enough, but I didnt like the stability so I am really interested in the upgrade to see if things are better.
Please help - I've reinstalled R5E50 several times with different hardware and I'm almost certain its not a hardware issue.
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tjc
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:25 pm |
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Have you checked the muting and the volume % for capture? See the recording profiles under utilities/setup -> setup -> tv.
Have you got sound on old recordings and music?
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whoa
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:48 pm |
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The backend just now froze as I was navigating to the tv area so I did a reboot and now the backend GUI wont come up but I have SSH and web access...
I use myth to make recordings of all the junk TV i want to watch in myspare time. After myth finishes a recording I transfer the recording file to a laptop (different box then the myth box) and watch the recordings in my sparetime, but to answer your question old recordings would not play with any sound on my myth box but do play with sound on my laptop. The new recordings I get from R5E50 have no sound on my myth box or on my laptop. I hope thats clear - and please let me know what I can do to get the backend GUI back up.
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tjc
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:25 pm |
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I'm confused. Did X not come up? Did the FRONTend GUI not come up? Or did the frontend GUI complain about the BACKend daemon not running? The last is a known problem which can be address using the Alt-3 key combo to restart the backend.
Once you get things running navigate into the setup screens and take a look at those recording profiles. Also try these commands from a root shell prompt:
Code: root@black2:~# v4l2-ctl -d0 -l | grep mute
mute (bool) : default=0 value=0
root@black2:~# v4l2-ctl -d0 -l | grep vol
volume (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=58880 value=58880 flags=slider
Repeat for -d0 through -d2 to check all three cards. Code: for i in 0 1 2 ; do v4l2-ctl -d$i -l | grep mute ; v4l2-ctl -d$i -l | grep vol ; done
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whoa
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:33 am |
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TJC - Thanks for the responses, they are greatly appreciated!!
I apologize - The backend is coming up just fine. The frontend GUI is what is not coming up and I have no idea how to get it to come up.
Here's what I am getting from your code:
v4l2-ctl -d0 -l | grep mute
mute (bool) : default=0 value=0
v4l2-ctl -d0 -l | grep vol
volume (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=58880 value=58880 flags=slider
for i in 0 1 2 ; do v4l2-ctl -d$i -l | grep mute ; v4l2-ctl -d$i -l | grep vol ; done
mute (bool) : default=0 value=0
volume (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=58880 value=58880 flags=slider
mute (bool) : default=0 value=0
volume (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=58880 value=58880 flags=slider
mute (bool) : default=0 value=0
volume (int) : min=0 max=65535 step=655 default=58880 value=60928 flags=slider
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whoa
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:21 am |
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Searched many other posts on front end GUI locking up or not starting and nothing worked so I reinstalled (again) this time I added some case fans because it felt like maybe there might be a heat issue. After the reinstall things have been pretty stable (havent rebooted yet tho - everytime I do thats a guarantee the Frontend GUI wont come back).
Went into the setup screens and went through every option under recording profiles and volume is set to 90 in every case. I didnt see anything for muting tho. Somewhere in one of the settings I indicated to allow the PVR-350 handle its own sound rather then the sound card. Im not sure whether you have to reboot in order for this to take effect, but its checked in either case.
It seems to be a constant occurence that I get no audio with my recordings at the end of every re-install and any reboot makes it impossible for me to get back to the front end GUI. Please help =/
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tjc
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:30 am |
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whoa wrote: The frontend GUI is what is not coming up and I have no idea how to get it to come up.
If X is coming up and you're seeing the penguin on the couch, do an Alt-X to get an xterm, and run the frontend by hand. This should produce some error messages which may lead us in the right direction.
If X isn't coming up see the http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=BlackScreenAfterInstall page on the wiki. Note that this hasn't bee updated for R5E50 yet, but it will give you some general things to look at like your xorg.conf file and the X logs.
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:30 am |
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ARe you sure you getting absolutely no audio or is it just very low? I am having an issue similar where at first i though I was getting nothing.. but after turrning everything up to the max.. including TV volume.. i heard a littl something..
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whoa
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:05 am |
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TJC - yeah X is not coming up. The screen will blink 5 times and I was getting the error "init ld c7 respawning too fast", which led me to the link you listed. My video card is a GeForce FX 5700LE/8D256DTGeForce FX. Its not the newest card out but its not that old, anyways I have tried on several occasions previous to today to reinstall drivers on *nix systems and it never works out for me. I have looked around but I'm not real sure where to go to try this once more, no one seems to have my model and so far all I've been getting now is the black screen (of doom).
I found this post: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... wning+fast
which led me to changing the xorg.conf file to use /dev/fb1 and thats where it went from a screen blink to a black screen (not sure if thats an inprovement - how do you verify what is the actual device number to put there?)
Krem1120 - Sound is definitely not there. My first test is to do a stream to another box (where I get dreaded silence), then I transfer the recording file to my laptop and play it there and same same - no sound.
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tjc
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:17 am |
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Your card is pretty close to mine.
First check how your card is seen:
Code: lspci | grep VGA If the Bus ID is not "01:00.0" (AGP or PCIe) you'll need to uncomment and correct that bit in the xorg.conf below. Then run the nvidia installer: Code: /usr/local/bin/install-nvidia-debian.sh 1.0.8776 Then drop in this fairly minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf which is what I'm using. You may need to adjust it slightly if you've got a USB keyboard. Watch out for word wrap in the code block below! Code: Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse not detected
# Serial Mouse not detected
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# Comments: see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346408
Load "dbe" # Double Buffering Extension, very important.
Load "glx" # GLX Extension.
Load "freetype" # Freetype fonts.
Load "type1" # Type 1 fonts
#Load "int10" # Developer extension, usually not needed
Load "record" # Developer extension, usually not needed
#Load "extmod" # This is okay, but if you look into "man xorg.conf" you'll find option NOT to include DGA extension with extmod, and for a good reason.. DGA causes i
nstability as it access videoram without consulting X about it.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "100 x 100"
HorizSync 30 - 50
VertRefresh 60 - 60
# The "magic" modelines borrowed from someone else
Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 #60Hz
# From http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
# hfreq: 30.43 kHz
Modeline "640x480@60" 24.11 640 672 760 792 480 490 495 505
# 640x480 @ 60Hz (Industry standard) hsync: 31.5kHz
#ModeLine "640x480" 25.2 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
# 640x480 @ 72Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.9kHz
#ModeLine "640x480" 31.5 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync
# 640x480 @ 75Hz (VESA) hsync: 37.5kHz
#ModeLine "640x480" 31.5 640 656 720 840 480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync
# 640x480 @ 85Hz (VESA) hsync: 43.3kHz
#ModeLine "640x480" 36.0 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync
# Extended modelines with GTF timings
# 640x480 @ 100.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 50.90 kHz; pclk: 43.16 MHz
#ModeLine "640x480" 43.16 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 509 -HSync +Vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "All"
BoardName "All"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
#Option "sw_cursor"
#Option "hw_cursor"
#Option "NoAccel"
#Option "ShowCache"
#Option "ShadowFB"
#Option "UseFBDev"
#Option "Rotate"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
#Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
#EndSection
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:35 am |
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I did the driver install with the -force option at the end which added some stuff to my xorg.conf file, but the nvidia driver was still not present. So I added it - did a reboot - held my breath and holy of holies X is up and running (not to sound like a little girl or anything but I do believe I said the word "yay")!
Okay so that little gremlin has been sniffed out - but the original problem of no sound is still there. I really am at wits end on that issue - tons of searching and I dont see anything to help here...Where do you think I should look for this problem?
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tjc
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:46 am |
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Use v4l2-ctl to see what audio signal the card is trying to record. To get a summary of the options run:
Code: v4l2-ctl -h | more
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whoa
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:12 pm |
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I tried everything that said audio here's what it said:
v4l2-ctl --list-audio-outputs
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT
v4l2-ctl --list-audio-inputs
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO
Input : 0
Name : Tuner 1
Input : 1
Name : Line In 1
Input : 2
Name : Line In 2
v4l2-ctl --get-tuner
Tuner:
Capabilities : 62.5 kHz multi-standard stereo lang1 lang2
Frequency range : 44.0 MHz - 958.0 MHz
Signal strength : 99%
Current audio mode : lang1
Available subchannels: stereo
v4l2-ctl --get-audio-input
Audio input : 0 (Tuner 1)
v4l2-ctl --get-audio-output
<nothing>
v4l2-ctl --list-audio-outputs
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT
v4l2-ctl --list-audio-inputs
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO
Input : 0
Name : Tuner 1
Input : 1
Name : Line In 1
Input : 2
Name : Line In 2
Still not real sure where to go from here...
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tjc
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:30 pm |
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Try:
Code: v4l2-ctl --set-tuner stereo
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whoa
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:23 pm |
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Hmmm...Well I dont usually watch TV or recordings out of the actual myth box - like I said earlier I copy the recording file over to my laptop and watch it there at my leisure. So I decided to hook up speakers to the myth box and there was sound as I was watching the program recording (hrrrm...). So I fire up the streaming section (thru mythweb) to my laptop and no sound still... So it looks as if now the issue is really there is no sound in a stream (I'll verify sound on the recording when it finishes recording and I transfer it over to the laptop). So now off to searching for streaming and no sound (tjc if you have any hints or pointers for this it would be appreciated - I'm still frustrated but at least now there seems to at least be hope). Thanks again.
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