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only black screen when running mythtv...

Aug 12, 2003, 11:15 PM

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I think I have everything in now , but when I try to start mythtv as
mythtv user I get a black screen and the following in the
mythbackend.log:

Changing from None to WatchingLiveTv
Changing from WatchingLiveTv to none
2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 1
2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player ringbuffer

What am I doing wrong?

I'm using a wintv pvr 250 rev 1 and the latest ivtv drivers from cvs.
I've done a cat /dev/video0 >test.mpg and it works so I'm assuming it's
got something to do with Mythtv

Any insights

thanks
anders

Re: only black screen when running mythtv... [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Aug 12, 2003, 11:35 PM

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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:15 am, jas wrote:
> I think I have everything in now , but when I try to start mythtv as
> mythtv user I get a black screen and the following in the
> mythbackend.log:
>
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTv
> Changing from WatchingLiveTv to none
> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 1
> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player ringbuffer
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Error message on the console you ran mythfrontend as.

Isaac
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Re: only black screen when running mythtv... [ In reply to ]

hons at rcn

Aug 12, 2003, 11:46 PM

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I can't get to the console where I start mythtv as I'm in X usinga
terminal and when he screen goes blak I have to ctl+alt+del to restart
the windowmanager.

and

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:15 am, jas wrote:
>> I think I have everything in now , but when I try to start mythtv as
>> mythtv user I get a black screen and the following in the
>> mythbackend.log:
>>
>> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTv
>> Changing from WatchingLiveTv to none
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 1
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player ringbuffer
>>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Error message on the console you ran mythfrontend as.
>
> Isaac
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Re: only black screen when running mythtv... [ In reply to ]

hons at rcn

Aug 12, 2003, 11:53 PM

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I just tried again and asked to have any output piped into a file and
from that I can now see the problem is that it's trying to switch to Xv
and can't find support for it.

When I try on and same hardware to run Freepia (I'm running on an epia
M10000 Nehemia) it works so maybe I just have to fiddle with the
Xserver.....

rgds
anders

On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 11:35 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:15 am, jas wrote:
>> I think I have everything in now , but when I try to start mythtv as
>> mythtv user I get a black screen and the following in the
>> mythbackend.log:
>>
>> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTv
>> Changing from WatchingLiveTv to none
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 1
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player 0
>> 2003-08-2003 23:05:58 adding: epia as a player ringbuffer
>>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Error message on the console you ran mythfrontend as.
>
> Isaac
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