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Darth_tater
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 Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 12:54 pm |
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if your wondering where the other 10% is, i hope you can hlep me find it!
i have just two problems. my first is with the newest version of the directv script. i did the normal wget and then adjusted the permissions as normal, but when ever i run it i *always* get this message.
initalising serial port...
and then it retries for 4 times.
ive tried switching it to ttyS1, 0, and a few other numbers... but before i upgraded (from r5 a26) it was working fine on ttys0.
how do i solve this?
my second problem, is that when ever i go to live TV i just get a black screen. when i kill the front end, then go to an xterm window and type "mythtv" which ould normaly start up the front end and watch tv, the screen goes black for ~ 10 seconds. then back to GDM where the xterm window is giving an arror about something taking to long to play (im sorry i dont know it exactly... where can i get the log file for it?)
EDIT: added problem #2
thanks!
Last edited by Darth_tater on Sun May 21, 2006 5:47 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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tjc
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:19 pm |
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What do these commands show?
Code: ls -al /dev/tty[Ss][01]
fuser -av /dev/tty[Ss][01]
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Darth_tater
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:39 pm |
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root@Familybox:~# ls -al /dev/tty[Ss][01]
crw-rw-rw- 1 root dialout 4, 64 May 21 15:30 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root dialout 4, 65 May 7 2004 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 48 May 7 2004 /dev/ttys0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 49 May 7 2004 /dev/ttys1
and
root@Familybox:~# fuser -av /dev/tty[Ss][01]
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttys0
/dev/ttys1
EDIT
here is the output of the firectv.pl command
Code: root@Familybox:~# directv.pl off
Initializing Serial Port...
Retry Sun May 21 15:41:36 2006
Retry Sun May 21 15:41:38 2006
Retry Sun May 21 15:41:40 2006
Retry Sun May 21 15:41:42 2006
Error excessive retries
(in cleanup) Can't call method "setcflag" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Device/SerialPort.pm line 482 during global destruction.
excuse a noob, but i think ythe script is trying to call something that causes an error or dosent exsist. im not shure how to fix this...
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mjl
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:26 pm |
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Hi,
Since cesman just announced the R5C7 release and you are just starting, why not start over the latest?
Mike
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Darth_tater
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:43 pm |
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mjl wrote: Hi,
Since cesman just announced the R5C7 release and you are just starting, why not start over the latest?
Mike
i have r5c7 installed. are you suggesting that i reformat?
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tjc
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 6:59 pm |
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I think mjl was confused and though you were using R5B7. The names are so close that it's a easy thing to miss.
At a guess the Perl script is trying to use a setting value that either changed or isn't supported in this kernel which seems kind of strange.
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mjl
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:20 pm |
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Hi Darth_tater,
tjc was absolutely correct, a senior moment maybe  Anyway, maybe an upgrade would not be a bad thing to do. Take notes on the steps as you go.
I didn't notice any information about hardware, tuner card type and maybe a plan as to what you are trying to have as an end result. Are you going for tv out or just a computer monitor? Since you were using R5A26 previously, I am assuming a backup before upgrade? Did you hear chimes?
If the serial seems to be a problem, maybe skip that option during the setup, and just take it step at a time. Get the listings, then the tuner working, and carefully go through the setup menus. You may have to delete the capture card and then add it back in. There are many differences between A26 / C7 beyond the .nuv / .mpg tv recordings. If I recall correctly, I did have to do a reboot after the setup to get my 150 card to be happy. Once things are good, do a backup, and then retry the remote blaster setup.
I would not expect to see a "dialin" but at this point I am out side my area to offer assistance however maybe those that use that external method will jump in.
Best of luck and once you are going, I think you will like it 
Mike
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Darth_tater
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:02 pm |
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mjl wrote: Hi Darth_tater, tjc was absolutely correct, a senior moment maybe Anyway, maybe an upgrade would not be a bad thing to do. Take notes on the steps as you go. I didn't notice any information about hardware, tuner card type and maybe a plan as to what you are trying to have as an end result. Are you going for tv out or just a computer monitor? Since you were using R5A26 previously, I am assuming a backup before upgrade? Did you hear chimes? If the serial seems to be a problem, maybe skip that option during the setup, and just take it step at a time. Get the listings, then the tuner working, and carefully go through the setup menus. You may have to delete the capture card and then add it back in. There are many differences between A26 / C7 beyond the .nuv / .mpg tv recordings. If I recall correctly, I did have to do a reboot after the setup to get my 150 card to be happy. Once things are good, do a backup, and then retry the remote blaster setup. I would not expect to see a "dialin" but at this point I am out side my area to offer assistance however maybe those that use that external method will jump in. Best of luck and once you are going, I think you will like it Mike its quite alright, and your not the only one with senior moments
i did do a back up but that didnt work right and i had to go out for a while so i asked dad to fill in... he reformatted
so i just reinstalled and have yet to power it back up and enter the root password...
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mjl
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:14 pm |
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Hi Darth_tater,
I am very interested in the hardware and your experiences up to the point of the main menu. I have noticed a couple of things and just want to track them a little. After that, you will have to call in the guru's
Sounds like dad did an auto install?
Thanks!
Mike
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Darth_tater
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 8:46 am |
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well, the hardware is nothing spectacular, just one of the few working VIA chipsets, a generic PCI capture card (it leave the CPU to sdo all th work) and 512mb of ram
i have overclocked the ram and CPU, but they are at safe, VERY stable levels...
but my main problem, as of now... is that when i go to live TV, the screen gopes black for about 1/2 second, then back to the main menu, as if nothing had happened...
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mjl
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:30 am |
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Hi,
Progress on this holiday weekend Suggest that you do an alt s and go through the setup stuff, may even have to dump the tuner card and start over. If you were to look in the logs you would probably see errors about not being able to tune or something to that effect. Also go through the Utilities / Setup and watchfor the paths. Every storage path should start with /myth/
See if those suggestions help.
Mike
I never had issues with my e-machine via chip set. power supply caps died 
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Darth_tater
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 2:01 pm |
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i know the storage paths are correct
which specific error log should i look in?
also, where is this error log
/VAR/LOGS/*SOMETHING*...
thanks
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mjl
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:42 pm |
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Hi,
do an ls /var/log and that should show you several to look at. Then go one level further into mythtv for the mythbackend.log. Since some can be quite long instead of doing less try tail -100 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log .... as that will show you the last 100 entries.
I was not saying the paths were wrong, I was simply saying double check as it does not cost anything to do a simple verify.
Mike
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Darth_tater
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:23 pm |
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here is the info you wanted
root@Familybox:~# ls /var/log
XFree86.0.log debug kern.log messages samba
XFree86.0.log.old distccd.log lastlog mysql scrollkeeper.log
apache dmesg lpr.log mysql.err syslog
apache-perl exim4 mail.err mysql.log user.log
auth.log fontconfig.log mail.info mythtv uucp.log
btmp gdm mail.log news webmin
daemon.log isdn mail.warn ntpstats wtmp
Code: root@Familybox:~# tail -100 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
Starting up as the master server.
2006-05-26 20:15:54.470 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-05-26 20:15:54.509 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-26 20:15:54.605 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2006-05-26 20:15:54.776 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed because it could not
find channel number '3' in DB for source '1'.
2006-05-26 20:15:54.928 TVRec(1): Channel: '3' was not found in the database.
Most likely, the default channel set for this input
cardid 1, input 'S-Video'
in setup is wrong
2006-05-26 20:15:54.934 TVRec(1) Error: Couldn't find any channels in the database,
please make sure your inputs are associated
properly with your cards.
2006-05-26 20:15:54.947 New DB scheduler connection
2006-05-26 20:15:55.002 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-26 20:15:55.030 mythbackend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
2006-05-26 20:15:55.147 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2006-05-26 20:15:55.263 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2006-05-26 20:15:55.780 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2006-05-26 20:15:57.047 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-05-26 20:15:57.062 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.01 place
2006-05-26 20:15:57.073 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-05-27 15:37:07.697 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-05-27 15:37:07.991 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-05-27 15:37:08.017 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-27 15:37:08.048 Current Schema Version: 1123
Starting up as the master server.
2006-05-27 15:37:08.238 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-05-27 15:37:08.328 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-27 15:37:08.404 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2006-05-27 15:37:08.755 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed because it could not
find channel number '3' in DB for source '1'.
2006-05-27 15:37:08.815 TVRec(1): Channel: '3' was not found in the database.
Most likely, the default channel set for this input
cardid 1, input 'S-Video'
in setup is wrong
2006-05-27 15:37:08.895 TVRec(1) Error: Couldn't find any channels in the database,
please make sure your inputs are associated
properly with your cards.
2006-05-27 15:37:08.943 New DB scheduler connection
2006-05-27 15:37:08.974 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-27 15:37:09.231 mythbackend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
2006-05-27 15:37:09.427 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2006-05-27 15:37:09.648 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2006-05-27 15:37:09.728 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2006-05-27 15:37:11.217 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-05-27 15:37:11.235 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.01 place
2006-05-27 15:37:11.243 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-05-27 20:54:22.300 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-05-27 20:54:22.304 adding: Familybox as a client (events: 0)
2006-05-27 20:54:22.376 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-05-27 20:54:22.378 adding: Familybox as a client (events: 1)
2006-05-28 19:15:55.871 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-05-28 19:15:56.154 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-05-28 19:15:56.306 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-28 19:15:56.331 Current Schema Version: 1123
Starting up as the master server.
2006-05-28 19:15:56.396 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-05-28 19:15:56.458 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-28 19:15:56.530 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2006-05-28 19:15:56.946 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed because it could not
find channel number '3' in DB for source '1'.
2006-05-28 19:15:56.973 TVRec(1): Channel: '3' was not found in the database.
Most likely, the default channel set for this input
cardid 1, input 'S-Video'
in setup is wrong
2006-05-28 19:15:57.004 TVRec(1) Error: Couldn't find any channels in the database,
please make sure your inputs are associated
properly with your cards.
2006-05-28 19:15:57.049 New DB scheduler connection
2006-05-28 19:15:57.069 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-28 19:15:57.406 mythbackend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org
2006-05-28 19:15:57.534 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2006-05-28 19:15:58.092 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 72 MiB/min
2006-05-28 19:15:58.150 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/freq: 10 min
2006-05-28 19:15:59.406 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-05-28 19:15:59.457 Scheduled 0 items in 0.1 = 0.04 match + 0.01 place
2006-05-28 19:15:59.465 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-05-28 19:16:32.291 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-05-28 19:16:32.293 adding: Familybox as a client (events: 0)
2006-05-28 19:16:32.336 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-05-28 19:16:32.355 adding: Familybox as a client (events: 0)
2006-05-28 19:16:32.360 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-05-28 19:16:32.362 adding: Familybox as a client (events: 1)
2006-05-28 19:16:32.368 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-05-28 19:16:32.371 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2006-05-28 19:16:32.391 Channel(/dev/video0): CheckChannel failed because it could not
find channel number '3' in DB for source '1'.
2006-05-28 19:16:32.396 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 3.
2006-05-28 19:16:32.411 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-05-28 19:16:32.422 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-05-28 19:16:32.436 TVRec(1) Error: Channel: '' was not found in the database.
Most likely, your DefaultTVChannel setting is wrong.
Could not start livetv.
2006-05-28 19:16:32.439 TVRec(1) Error: CreateLiveTVRingBuffer() failed
2006-05-28 19:16:32.445 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to create RingBuffer 2
2006-05-28 19:16:32.448 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
OK, from what i see i need to redo the channel sources... from the xml listings... i will be doing this in just a sec...
EDIT***
ok so i foxed the data direct settings and ran mythfilldatabase and the TV works!
but, now one problem... the serial port is giving the directv.pl script problems...PLEAS HELP ME WITH THIS!!!!!
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NoDrugAds
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:05 pm |
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I am having the same problem. Anyone know a solution?
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