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  3. Howto: Mandriva 2005 LE + ivtv

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted

    Did the above and now I can't find any channels in MythTV when I scan for them. Also, what was once a static-y buy quasi-visible image during mplayer /dev/video is nothing but static now. I've done all the research on the channel frequencies and even tried manually adding the channels, again to very little effect. I've also tried us-cable and us-cable-hrc with varying options but still can't seem to get the right picture on the screen. I'm now using ivtv-0.4.0 and am following this

    guide. Not sure what else to provide you with.

  4. Howto: Mandriva 2005 LE + ivtv

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted · Edited by UponFirstListen

    It shouldn't matter. What do you get from mplayer /dev/video0 ?

     

    Nothing but static. I've tried scanning for channels in MythTV to no luck. I can't even get it to find channels 3 and 4. I had everything up and running about a week ago, but then I lost it. I've started over twice now (complete format). At my wit's end with this thing and contemplating Windows.

  6. Another TV-Out Not Working Post

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by UponFirstListen

    I say another because I must have read a hundred others, all offering no help for my setup.

     

    Asus A7N8X-X MB

    Athlon XP

    512 DDR Ram

    160GB HD

    80GB HD

    DVD/CD-RW

    Mandrake 2005 LE (10.2)

    Kerenl 2.6.11-6mdk

    Honestly can't tell which IVTV driver is loaded and functioning. i've gone from the 0.2 series to URPMI ivtv and URPMI dkms-ivtv and finally to the 0.3 series. Somewhere along the way, it found a way to work.

     

    MythTV is up and running, allowing me to watch, record and play back TV, but when I try to fix my xorg.conf to allow TV-Out, I get no dice. Below is my working xorg.con and two versions that don't work. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

     

    WORKING

    Code:
# File generated by XFdrake.

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
   # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
   # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
   # the X server to render fonts.
   FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
   #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
   #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
   AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
   Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
   Load "extmod"
   Load "type1"
   Load "freetype"
   Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard1"
   Driver "keyboard"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
   Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "monitor1"
   VendorName "Plug'n Play"
   ModelName "DELL M992"
   HorizSync 30-96
   VertRefresh 50-160
  
   # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
   # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
   ModeLine "768x576"     50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630
  
   # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
   ModeLine "768x576"     63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "nVidia Corp."
   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
   Driver "nv"
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "screen1"
   Device "device1"
   Monitor "monitor1"
   DefaultColorDepth 24
  
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 8
       Virtual 1280 960
   EndSubsection
  
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 15
       Virtual 1280 960
   EndSubsection
  
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 16
       Virtual 1280 960
   EndSubsection
  
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth 24
       Virtual 1280 960
   EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   Screen "screen1"
EndSection

     

    NOT WORKING

    Code:
# File generated by XFdrake.

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
   # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
   # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
   # the X server to render fonts.
   FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
   #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
   #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
   AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
   Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
   Load "extmod"
   Load "type1"
   Load "freetype"
   Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard1"
   Driver "keyboard"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
   Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "NTSC Television on Hauppauge card"
   # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
   HorizSync   30-68
   VertRefresh 50-120
   Mode "720x480"
        DotClock 34.564
        HTimings 720 752 840 928
        VTimings 480 484 488 504
        Flags "-Hsync" "-Vsync"
   EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "nVidia Corp."
   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
   Driver "nv"
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350"
#    Driver "fbdev"
   Driver "ivtvdev"
#    Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1"
   Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
   BusID "PCI:1:8:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
       Identifier "Hauppauge Screen"
       Device "Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350"
       Monitor "NTSC Television on Hauppauge card"
       DefaultDepth 24
       DefaultFbbpp 32
       Subsection "Display"
                  Depth 24
                  FbBpp 32
                  Modes "720x480"
       EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   Screen "Hauppauge Screen"
EndSection

     

    ALSO NOT WORKING

    Code:
# File generated by XFdrake.

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
   # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
   # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
   # the X server to render fonts.
   FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
   #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
   #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
   AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
   Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
   Load "extmod"
   Load "type1"
   Load "freetype"
   Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard1"
   Driver "keyboard"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
   Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
       Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
       Screen  0 "TV Screen"
       InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
       InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
       Identifier  "NTSC Monitor"
       HorizSync  30-68
       VertRefresh 50-120
       Mode "720x480"
         # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
         DotClock 34.564
         HTimings 720 752 840 928
         VTimings 480 484 488 504
         Flags    "-HSync" "-VSync"
       EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
       Driver      "fbdev"

       ### change fb1 to whatever number you got in the previous section
       Option      "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"

       ### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that
       ### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID
       BusID "0:0x08:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
       Identifier  "TV Screen"
       Device      "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
       Monitor     "NTSC Monitor"
       DefaultDepth 24
       DefaultFbbpp 32
       Subsection "Display"
         Depth 24
         FbBpp 32
         Modes "720x480"
       EndSubsection
EndSection

     

    Thanks again.

  8. Sudden Inability to Burn CDs (k3b)

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Weirdest thing, I posted the above reply and figured I'd give it one more chance. Put the files into k3b and it started burning like it was never a problem. Go figure. I just wish I knew what had caused it and how to prevent it from happening in the future. Oh well, thanks for everyone's help.

  10. Sudden Inability to Burn CDs (k3b)

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Had tried burning as both user and root to no effect. I just turned off DMA, but am getting the exact same results. Something I neglected to mention is that when I do force the media, I get the following:

     

    Error while decoding audio tracks.

    Removing buffer files.

    Unlocking drive...

    Could not unlock CD drive.

     

    Not sure if that's helpful, but I'm just getting frustrated with the whole thing.

  12. Sudden Inability to Burn CDs (k3b)

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Mandrake 10.1

    KDE 3.2.3

    TDK VeloCD 40/12/48B

     

    Been running Mandrake 10.1 for about 6 months now and had no problems burning CDs. I was burning a few today, and, as usual, no problems. The last CD I was burning was going as normal and had reached 100%, but the buffer hadn't emptied (sitting at 18%), so I let it run. It ran for 17 minutes with no change. Killed K3b and tried again, same exact thing (buffer at 18%). Rebooted and tried again. Same thing. Rebooted and tried a different set of audio and K3b won't recognize that there's a blank CD in the drive. If I try and force the media, I get the following:

     

    System

    -----------------------

    K3b Version:0.11.16

    KDE Version: 3.2.3

    QT Version: 3.3.3

     

    cdrecord

    -----------------------

    scsidev: '/dev/hdc'

    devname: '/dev/hdc'

    scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2

    Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.

    Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27

    SCSI buffer size: 64512

    Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright © 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling

    Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support

    Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.

    Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.

    Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.

    TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA

    Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.

    Driveropts: 'burnfree'

    atapi: 1

    Device type    : Removable CD-ROM

    Version        : 0

    Response Format: 2

    Capabilities   :

    Vendor_info    : 'TDK     '

    Identifikation : 'CDRW401240B     '

    Revision       : 'Z7SD'

    Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.

    Current: 0x0002

    Profile: 0x000A

    Profile: 0x0009

    Profile: 0x0008

    Profile: 0x0002 (current)

    Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).

    Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED

    Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R

    FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB

    Encoding speed : 546x (40919 sectors/s) for libedc from Heiko Eißfeldt

    pregap1: -1

    Track 01: audio   12 MB (01:13.74) no preemp swab copy

    Track 02: audio   17 MB (01:46.64) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 03: audio   20 MB (02:01.68) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 04: audio    9 MB (00:55.93) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 05: audio   20 MB (02:03.33) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 06: audio   15 MB (01:32.18) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 07: audio   21 MB (02:06.17) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 08: audio   20 MB (02:02.78) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 09: audio   17 MB (01:46.66) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 10: audio   18 MB (01:52.54) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 11: audio   19 MB (01:55.02) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 12: audio   17 MB (01:45.17) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 13: audio   12 MB (01:13.66) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Track 14: audio   14 MB (01:27.60) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    /usr/bin/cdrecord: Success. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: no error

    CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00

    status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)

    Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 3A 00 00 00

    Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0

    Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0

    Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)

    cmd finished after 0.012s timeout 40s

    /usr/bin/cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!

    Track 15: audio   17 MB (01:41.44) no preemp swab copy pregapsize:   0

    Total size:      256 MB (25:24.60) = 114345 sectors

    Lout start:      256 MB (25:26/45) = 114345 sectors

     

    cdrecord comand:

    -----------------------

    /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=40 -raw96r driveropts=burnfree -eject -useinfo -pad -shorttrack -audio /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_01.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_02.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_03.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_04.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_05.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_06.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_07.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_08.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_09.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_10.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_11.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_12.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_13.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_14.inf /tmp/kde-jason/k3b_audio_1_15.inf

     

    Everything looks fine (to me, a man with little experience in this arena) until I get to:

     

    Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0

    Sense Code: 0x3A Qual 0x00 (medium not present) Fru 0x0

    Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)

    cmd finished after 0.012s timeout 40s

    /usr/bin/cdrecord: No disk / Wrong disk!

     

    I have perused the internet (including this forum), but was unable to find anyone experiencing a siminal problem. I'm going to try and anticipate a few problems first, so as to expedite things.

     

    The drive mounts properly and I can read both data and audio from previously-burned and factory CDs.

    I have tried a plethora of media, all to no avail.

    I used a piece of media I attempted to force (only to receive the above message) and was able to successfully burn data onto it on another computer.

    cdrecord -scanbus yields:

     

    Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
################################################################################
#########
#
#  Warning: Using ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. Use dev=ATA:X,Y,Z or dev=/dev/hdX
#
################################################################################
#########
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus1:
       1,0,0   100) 'TDK     ' 'CDRW401240B     ' 'Z7SD' Removable CD-ROM
       1,1,0   101) *
       1,2,0   102) *
       1,3,0   103) *
       1,4,0   104) *
       1,5,0   105) *
       1,6,0   106) *
       1,7,0   107) *

     

    My fstab looks like:

    /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

    /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=000,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,users,owner 0 0

    none /proc proc defaults 0 0

    /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,rw,exec,users 0 0

     

    My lilo.conf looks like:

    # File generated by DrakX/drakboot

    # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

     

    default="linux"

    boot=/dev/hda

    map=/boot/map

    keytable=/boot/us.klt

    prompt

    nowarn

    timeout=100

    message=/boot/message

    menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

    image=/boot/vmlinuz

    label="linux"

    root=/dev/hda1

    append="hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1"

    initrd=/boot/initrd.img

    append="acpi=ht splash=silent"

    vga=788

    read-only

    image=/boot/vmlinuz

    label="linux-nonfb"

    root=/dev/hda1

    initrd=/boot/initrd.img

    append="acpi=ht"

    read-only

    image=/boot/vmlinuz

    label="failsafe"

    root=/dev/hda1

    initrd=/boot/initrd.img

    append="failsafe acpi=ht"

    read-only

    other=/dev/hdb1

    label="windows"

    table=/dev/hdb

    map-drive=0x80

        to=0x81

    map-drive=0x81

        to=0x80

     

    I just can't seem to figure it out. I have tried uninstalling cdrecord and k3b, both to no avail. What's curious to me is that it worked one minute, but not the next. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

     

    Moved to Hardware by theYinYeti, moderator.

  15. Thac and Zé's KDE 3.4 rpms

    in Mandriva Enhanced RPMs

    Posted

    I'm up and running in KDE 3.4! Ok, this is how I fixed it. First, I had to change my sound driver (from emu10k1 to Audigy), which was causing a hang on boot. After I could finally boot cleanly, I urpme'd mdkkdm and kdebase-kdm. I then urpmi'd just mdkkdm. Booted and everything was fine. I hope this helps everyone out, as I was getting just a frustrated with it as everyone else.

  16. Thac and Zé's KDE 3.4 rpms

    in Mandriva Enhanced RPMs

    Posted

    I've also given up. Now, I can't even boot non-interactively due to the system hanging after start Alsa. If I get past it, I get to kdm. Password works, but it throws me into xterm. Login again and startx to get up and running. Going to reinstall Mandrake 10.1 again tomorrow (time number 2342341231209) and, like Joe, forgot about 3.3 or 3.4 until they're officially supported by Mandrake. Oh well.

  17. Thac and Zé's KDE 3.4 rpms

    in Mandriva Enhanced RPMs

    Posted

    I've got the same problem, Joe. I've spent the last 3 days attempting to get it working. Right now, I'm 'urpmi --auto-select' with just the sources from easy urpmi. After that I plan on 'urpmi kdebase' in an effort to upgrade from KDE 3.2 to 3.3. Then, I will add Thac's rpms to my source list and again 'urpmi kdebase', hoping to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4, but who knows if this will work. If it doesn't, I'll just stick with 3.2, as it works just fine. I'll let you know if this works.

  20. Random Logouts

    in Software

    Posted

    It is most certainly Amarok/XMMS related. After allowing another playlist to run until completion I was again logged out and /var/log/messages again showed the same errors. I'm going to install XMMS and give it a try again tomorrow.

  21. Random Logouts

    in Software

    Posted

    No "Software Management" (and by extension, "Updates") in Configure Your Desktop. Also, I don't even have XMMS installed (though, I do have libxmms1). Perhaps if I install XMMS it will fix it?

  22. Random Logouts

    in Software

    Posted

    No, I'm certainly running KDE (3.2). I did find this other post (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=188246) where a guy had similar error messages in his messages log, but his was related to an ethernet card (mine's working fine). Someone suggested that there's a conflict between KDE and XMMS, which would support my theory with Amarok. However, I don't really see uninstalling XMMS (and, by extension, Amarok) as a viable option. (Not to mention I'm uncertain if it's even the cause of the problem as it was running just fine until recently).

  23. Random Logouts

    in Software

    Posted

    Just got logged out again and the same sequence of messages appears in my /var/log/messages. I did notice that my playlist in Amarok had just finished, but still not sure if this is coincidental or a conflict of some kind.

  24. Random Logouts

    in Software

    Posted

    No XFree86.0.log in /var/log (or anywhere else that I can see), but /var/log/messages has the following:

     

    Mar 6 13:19:09 192 kde3(pam_unix)[15067]: session closed for user jason

    Mar 6 13:19:09 192 kernel: mtrr: 0xd0000000,0x4000000 overlaps existing 0xd0000000,0x100000

    Mar 6 13:19:09 192 kernel: drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: led urb status -32 received

    Mar 6 13:19:12 192 kernel: drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: led urb status -32 received

    Mar 6 13:19:16 192 kde3(pam_unix)[22058]: session opened for user jason by (uid=0)

    Mar 6 13:19:17 192 net_applet[22152]: ### Program is starting ###

    Mar 6 13:19:17 192 gconfd (jason-22199): starting (version 2.6.4), pid 22199 user 'jason'

    Mar 6 13:19:18 192 gconfd (jason-22199): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0

    Mar 6 13:19:18 192 gconfd (jason-22199): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/jason/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1

    Mar 6 13:19:18 192 gconfd (jason-22199): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2

     

    This is repeated about two or three times in the log, which I believe coincides with the logouts, but I won't know until it happens again.

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