[nflug] MythTV issues

Joshua Ronne Altemoos joshua at wolfnix.net
Wed Mar 8 18:40:43 EST 2006


Here is what I have, I did not see the tuner but the Box says it is a
philiphs

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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
mousedev
psmouse
nvidia
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root at purgatory:/etc#  lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
(rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super
South] (rev 40)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 1a)
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 1a)
0000:00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 40)
0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686
AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4
MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
root at purgatory:/etc#


> 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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