[nflug] MythTV issues

[vlok stone]

Do you have the nvidia drivers loaded? Can you run
tuxracer, for example? Install xawtv, if you can watch
tv in that and not in mythtv
you probably don't have the nvidia drivers mythtv
needs. A good clue is if you see the nvidia splash
screen when booting. 

--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> kobear at sharedbrain.net wrote:
> > I did not see the error message in the email.
> >
> > Is this video card your primary video card as
> well?  Or a secondary card?  If it
> > is the primary card, then the video card portion
> is fine.  Usually, the tuner
> > would use the bttv driver.  Check out Jarod's
> guide to installing MythTV
> > (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php).  It is
> specific to FC, but it should
> > give you some good pointers.
> >
> > Kyle
> >
> > Quoting Joshua Ronne Altemoos
> <joshua at wolfnix.net>:
> >
> >   
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> I have a EVGA gforce4 MX|440 8x AGP card with
> 64MB DDR with a built in
> >> philips tuner, I can not seem to find any type of
> drivers for the tuner.
> >> I was able to get the nvidia for the graphics end
> No Problem. This is Ubuntu
> >> 5.10.
> >> I get MythTV installed via apt-get and get
> everthing set up but once I hit
> >> watchTv it blacks out on me and it says what I
> have pasted below. That goes
> >> on and on and on untill I cancel the run.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone with any info? Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> ~josh
> >>
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> If it is a philips chipset it most likely will use
> the bttv module. What 
> do you have currently in your modules file? (don't
> know exact 
> name/location of modules file in ubuntu). If your
> system doesn't 
> recognize the card, mythtv wont either. If you have
> the kernel docs on 
> your system, there is some pretty good info on what
> options to use with 
> what chipsets, etc.. You should send the output of 
> lspci to the list 
> and I will dig a little for ya.
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