i installed knopmyth without any problems and thought everything would work great the first time ... BUT when i tried to watch live tv the first time the system went to a black screen and locked up

my setup:
-Celeron 800
-on board video card
-ATI Tv Wonder Pro

i ran dmesg | grep bttv and received the following error



i do have to admit that i only dabble in linux every few years when i get the itch, but i feel confident i can successfully install and run mythtv with some help

i have added the following code to /etc/mythtv/modules/bttv:



but this didnt help

any other ideas?

which version of KnoppMyth?

-brendan

R4V5

Why not try R5A15.1? It's running a much more recent kernel and set of v4l drivers.

-brendan

i will try that tonight. i thought i had the newest build. i must have downloaded it from an older mirror

i will post my results

the newer iso installed without any problems and the tuner card seems to be working. i don't have an extra cable line in my office so i haven't tried hooking the cable up yet but it at least shows static when i watch "live tv"

i do have a vcr hooked up through the cable though but when i play a vhs tape in the vcr the video doesn't show on the pc. the vcr is configured to play video on channel 3 but channel 3 doesn't show anything in mythtv

im trying to copy some vhs tapes before i setup the cable

any suggestions?

Post the dmesg output after a fresh restart.

-brendan

i tried last night but it didn't output anything or give an error, it only returned to the prompt

i used the following command:



i tried to run this from an alternate session (CTRL+ALT+F1) and from an xterm from the knoppmyth desktop

this worked in R4V5 before; im now running R5A15

try cat /var/log/messages | grep bttv

2.6 produces many more messages than 2.4 did and sometimes it overflows dmesg.

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cool, i'll try it tonight

thanks

well i figured out why "dmesg | grep bttv" wouldn't work, its not there

on a whym i tried "dmesg | grep card" to see if it found any card. it found a card under the cx88 module/chipset (not sure what it is)

next i tried "dmesg | grep cx88" which produced the following:



im not quite sure what all this means but it looks like it is detecting the correct tuner card. any ideas on how to get it to work?

on a second note some of that code may be slightly off b/c i had to transpose it from the linux box to my main windows pc. is there a web browser installed by default on the knoppmyth machine i can run. that would make it much easier to troubleshoot

actually its not even showing static/snow anymore on live tv, only a black screen

MythBrowser and Lynx are both available, you can also:Of course, you should apt-get update first...

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

i logged in as su and tried "echo cx88 >> etc/modules" but it said permission denied

i did look at the /etc/modules file and found cx88 listed several times cx88[0] was at the very bottom

i have no idea what this means though

i tried "echo cx99 >> /etc/modules" from a new session (CTRL+ALT+F1) and it ran this time but showed nothing

still lost