Hi, If you check dmesg, is everything OK loading ivtv? You should see the ivtv messages between two ======== lines. Using diff to compare the dmesg output for different kernels has led me to getting things to work.
When you do a ivtv-tune -f xxx.xx to set frequency. After that cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg and you playback test.mpg is that OK (or you do mplayer /dev/video0) -----Original Message----- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:39 PM To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work with new(er) kernel I had MythTV working perfectly with linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r5. I've tried to upgrade to linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 using genkernel and basing the newer kernel's configuration off of the older one. I've booted with the new kernel, remerged ivtv and rebooted again with the new kernel, but still I cannot watch LiveTV in mythfrontend. Here's the output of mythbackend.log: camille ~ # cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log Starting up as the master server. It is current (I stopped mythbackend, deleted the old mythbackend.log, restarted syslog-ng and then mythbackend.) When I start mythfrontend and ask to watch LiveTV, all I see is the blank screen. Here is the output of running mythfrontend from my terminal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend 2006-03-13 13:30:34.209 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1024, height=768, numscreens=1 2006-03-13 13:30:34.229 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2006-03-13 13:30:34.249 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org 2006-03-13 13:30:34.250 Enabled verbose msgs : important general 2006-03-13 13:30:34.526 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2006-03-13 13:30:34.952 Joystick disabled. 2006-03-13 13:30:35.069 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2006-03-13 13:30:40.671 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-03-13 13:30:40.710 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.3:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2006-03-13 13:30:40.733 Using protocol version 15 2006-03-13 13:30:40.890 Using protocol version 15 2006-03-13 13:30:46.209 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2006-03-13 13:30:51.213 taking too long to be allowed to read.. 2006-03-13 13:31:00.218 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:04.222 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:08.226 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:12.230 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:16.234 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:20.238 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:24.242 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:28.246 Waited 4 seconds for data to become available, waiting again... 2006-03-13 13:31:28.247 Waited 14 seconds for data to become available, aborting Couldn't read file: rbuf://192.168.1.3:6543/mnt/store//ringbuf1.nuv 2006-03-13 13:31:28.303 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-03-13 13:31:28.303 Decoder not alive, and trying to play.. 2006-03-13 13:31:48.307 ReadStringList timeout (quick). Remote encoder not responding. 2006-03-13 13:31:48.323 Changing from None to None 2006-03-13 13:31:58.483 ReadStringList timeout (quick). 2006-03-13 13:31:58.483 RemoteFile::Read(): No response from control socket. 2006-03-13 13:31:58.483 RemoteFile::Read() failed in RingBuffer::safe_read(). 2006-03-13 13:31:58.495 WriteStringList: Bad socket 2006-03-13 13:31:58.495 ReadStringList: Bad socket 2006-03-13 13:31:58.495 Remote file timeout. I see there: mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory But mythbackend IS running; from another teminal tab I issue this: camille ~ # ps ax | grep 'mythbackend' 12762 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12766 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12767 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12769 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12770 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12771 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12772 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12773 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12774 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12775 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12776 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12777 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12792 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12793 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/mythbackend --verbose none --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log 12821 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep mythbackend camille ~ # I would post the new kernel config, but since it's based off the old kernel config, and the old one worked, I don't see the necessity. I will post it if it would be helpful. Why is this not working? Have I forgotten something? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.2/280 - Release Date: 3/13/2006 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list