Mailing List Archive: Problem with RH8 and mythtv

Problem with RH8 and mythtv

Nov 30, 2002, 2:32 PM

Post #1 of 6 (1727 views)

Hi all,

I'm new to mythtv. I downloaded all the sources (and all the pre-requisites etc...) and finally
got everything compiled. I tested with xawtv and zapping, and they both work fine. The setup of
mythtv worked (even though i got the "Interal Server Error" message a couple of times while
downloading the listings) but once i tried running mythtv, it would just sit there. So i read over
the list, and i see that other people have had a similar problem. here's the output that i get:

root@proteus>mythtv
Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
strange error flushing buffer...

nothing happens after this point, and hit ctrl-c to exit.

I saw Issac's post suggesting it may be a bug in ALSA rc5, so i got the rpms from freshrpm ( rc6.1
) and got the drivers installed, but i still get the same error after that. Has anybody been able
to get around this problem? Here is my sistem config:

- Duron 1.3 GHz - 512 MB RAM
- 18 GB Maxtor 91827U4
- ATI Radeon 7000
- Redhat 8.0 ( Kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0 )
- Gnome
- ATI TV Wonder EV
- Sis7012 Integrated sound card
- ALSA 0.9 rc6.1

here's what my modules.conf looks like:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias char-major-81 bttv

#ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

# module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

#card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

I would greatly appreciate any help with this one.

Thanks

Felix

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Re: Problem with RH8 and mythtv [ In reply to ]

joddo at apixels

Nov 30, 2002, 2:58 PM

Post #2 of 6 (1702 views)

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I'm not guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I can tell you about
my troubles....

I had a bear of a time getting everything to compile under RH8 although
several people have had success. I switched to Mandrake9 and it shaved
off a huge amount of time and headaches. I *love* RH for business, but
you can tell that (until recently) RedHat hasn't focused much on the
desktop/multimedia setups. If you want to get it up and running quickly,
I'd get debian or mandrake (no flame wars please!).

Once switching to Mandrake, I still have that "myth hanging" problem.
Isaac had to do all but hit me over the head to convince me that it was my
[insert long string of cuss words here] onboard sound. I must have spent
15 hours on that damn problem. After gettings a SoundBlaster, I had it up
and running in an hour or so (I could have done it faster if I wasn't half
asleep at the time!).

...as I was told...save yourself some time and spend $25 on a decent
soundcard that *will* work for sure :)

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to mythtv. I downloaded all the sources (and all the
> pre-requisites etc...) and finally got everything compiled. I tested
> with xawtv and zapping, and they both work fine. The setup of mythtv
> worked (even though i got the "Interal Server Error" message a couple of
> times while downloading the listings) but once i tried running mythtv,
> it would just sit there. So i read over the list, and i see that other
> people have had a similar problem. here's the output that i get:
>
> root@proteus>mythtv
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> strange error flushing buffer...
>
>
> nothing happens after this point, and hit ctrl-c to exit.
>
> I saw Issac's post suggesting it may be a bug in ALSA rc5, so i got the
> rpms from freshrpm ( rc6.1 ) and got the drivers installed, but i still
> get the same error after that. Has anybody been able to get around this
> problem? Here is my sistem config:
>
> - Duron 1.3 GHz - 512 MB RAM
> - 18 GB Maxtor 91827U4
> - ATI Radeon 7000
> - Redhat 8.0 ( Kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0 )
> - Gnome
> - ATI TV Wonder EV
> - Sis7012 Integrated sound card
> - ALSA 0.9 rc6.1
>
> here's what my modules.conf looks like:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 8139too
> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
> alias char-major-81 bttv
>
> #ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>
> # module options should go here
>
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>
> #card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help with this one.
>
> Thanks
>
> Felix
>
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Re: Problem with RH8 and mythtv [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Nov 30, 2002, 3:29 PM

Post #3 of 6 (1721 views)

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On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:32 pm, Felix Deschamps wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to mythtv. I downloaded all the sources (and all the pre-requisites
> etc...) and finally got everything compiled. I tested with xawtv and
> zapping, and they both work fine. The setup of mythtv worked (even though i
> got the "Interal Server Error" message a couple of times while downloading
> the listings) but once i tried running mythtv, it would just sit there. So
> i read over the list, and i see that other people have had a similar
> problem. here's the output that i get:
>
> root@proteus>mythtv
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Television
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite1
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> strange error flushing buffer...
>
>
> nothing happens after this point, and hit ctrl-c to exit.
>
> I saw Issac's post suggesting it may be a bug in ALSA rc5, so i got the
> rpms from freshrpm ( rc6.1 ) and got the drivers installed, but i still get
> the same error after that. Has anybody been able to get around this
> problem? Here is my sistem config:

The most likely thing is your soundcard doesn't do full-duplex properly, and
it's hanging trying to open the sound device for output.

Isaac

Re: Problem with RH8 and mythtv [ In reply to ]

felix_deschamps at yahoo

Nov 30, 2002, 3:47 PM

Post #4 of 6 (1690 views)

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Thanks for the info guys. Guess i'll be running to Best Buy and getting a new sound card... What
card would you guys recomend?

Felix

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Re: Problem with RH8 and mythtv [ In reply to ]

joddo at apixels

Nov 30, 2002, 4:40 PM

Post #5 of 6 (1722 views)

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> Thanks for the info guys. Guess i'll be running to Best Buy and getting
> a new sound card... What card would you guys recomend?
>
I got my SoundBlaster PCI-512 at BestBuy, but I don't know if I'd
recommend it. I mean, it works great, but it's only a 4-channel analog
out card. You could probably get a much better card for just a little bit
more money. I would probably stick with SoundBlaster as it's the industry
standard.

Re: Problem with RH8 and mythtv [ In reply to ]

bjm at lvcm

Nov 30, 2002, 5:46 PM

Post #6 of 6 (1720 views)

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Felix Deschamps wrote:
> Thanks for the info guys. Guess i'll be running to Best Buy and getting a new sound card... What
> card would you guys recomend?

The SoundBlaster series is a good choice since it's widely
used and well supported. If you have surround speakers
and/or a stereo reciever with digital in, the SBLive is a
good choice. If you just need regular 2-channel, SB16 is
cheap and will do the job.

-- bjm