[nflug] MythTV issues

[Joshua Ronne Altemoos]

I can play ppracer, but I can not watch TV in xawtv. I sent the lspci and
my /etc/modules eariler.

> 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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