hardware:
PVR250
ati rage 128
bx chipset mobo
pIII 1gig

software:
knoppmyth r4v2

I can't seem to get my tuner to work. It worked in windows, so I know the card/tuner is good. I've tried changing the PCI slots and I still get a blank screen when trying to watch live tv.
I've tried 0-8 for the tuner input type using the test_ioctl command, but no luck with any of them.

I tried getting the r4 version of knoppmyth but that didn't work either, I had the same results.

anyone got any ideas? please...
any tips are appreciated..

Perhaps starting the frontend in an xterm and quitting You should see some output. Have you checked the log? Saying I have a blank screen w/ nothing else don't give much information.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I've checked the output from the xterm.. didn't see anything usefull.
but I'm posting some output from dmesg and the mythbackend log below
But the good news is, last night I found out that it's atleast working..
because when I do a cat /dev/video0 > foo.mpg it actually works.. I can play that video on my other system. I just can't watch live tv, I can also play the video on the local machine.

here is some of my dmesg output:
--- BEGIN DMESG --
saa7115[0]: decoder enable output
ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
ivtv: api call 0x00000081
ivtv: startcap error 1. Code -16
ivtv: Timeout waiting for data!
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
ivtv: api call 0x000000d2
ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
ivtv: api call 0x000000d2
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
ivtv: Timeout waiting for data!
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00005, Hfsc: 0x00480
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x01400
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00005, Hfsc: 0x00480
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x01400
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
saa7115[0]: decoder set picture bright=173 contrast=39 saturation=41 hue=0
ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
ivtv: api call 0x000000d2
ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
ivtv: api call 0x000000d2
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00780
Vsrc: 480, Vscy: 0x006aa
ivtv: 1000 ms time out waiting for firmware
ivtv: api call 0x00000082
ivtv: stopcap error 2. Code -16
-- END DMESG --

-- BEGIN mythtvbackend.log --
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
QSocketDevice::writeBlock: Invalid socket
2004-02-09 02:58:50 WriteBlock(): Aborting WriteBlock, write to socket failed!
Unable to write to client socket, as it's no longer there
2004-02-09 02:59:42 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 02:59:42 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 02:59:42 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 02:59:42 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
2004-02-09 02:59:42 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 02:59:42 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 02:59:42 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 02:59:42 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 02:59:43 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
open: No such device
2004-02-09 02:59:43 Could not open audio device: /dev/dsp
2004-02-09 02:59:43 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-02-09 02:59:55 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Starting up as the master server.
QSettings: error creating /.qt
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
sh: + : invalid option
Usage: sh [GNU long option] [option] ...
sh [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
--debug
--dump-po-strings
--dump-strings
--help
--init-file
--login
--noediting
--noprofile
--norc
--posix
--rcfile
--restricted
--verbose
--version
--wordexp
Shell options:
-irsD or -c command or -O shopt_option (invocation only)
-abefhkmnptuvxBCHP or -o option
External channel change command exited with status 512
2004-02-09 03:02:21 mythbackend version: 0.14.20040123-1 www.mythtv.org
2004-02-09 03:02:21 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2004-02-09 03:02:23 Found changes in the todo list.
2004-02-09 03:02:34 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:02:34 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 03:02:34 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:02:34 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
2004-02-09 03:02:34 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:02:34 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 03:02:34 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:02:34 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 03:02:34 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
open: No such device
2004-02-09 03:02:34 Could not open audio device: /dev/dsp
2004-02-09 03:02:34 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-02-09 03:02:59 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2004-02-09 03:11:24 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:11:24 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 03:11:25 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:11:25 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 1)
2004-02-09 03:11:28 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:11:28 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 03:11:28 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 03:11:28 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 03:11:28 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
open: No such device
2004-02-09 03:11:28 Could not open audio device: /dev/dsp
2004-02-09 03:11:28 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2004-02-09 03:11:46 Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2004-02-09 12:18:35 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 12:18:35 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 12:21:34 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 12:21:34 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 12:21:46 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 12:21:46 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2004-02-09 12:21:54 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2004-02-09 12:21:54 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)

-- END mythtvbackend.log --

"ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware "
Sorry, I cannot think of an accurate solution. Please check the tvtv archive.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I get an 'IVTV timeout waiting for data' error message that repeats indefinatly when attempting to watch live tv. Any ideas?

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- Walter Lippmann

Hi,

> ivtv: 100 ms time out waiting for firmware
I had these errors during my installation disasters the last days several times. If I recall right it's either a wrong firmware (a) or the wrong tuner in the ivtv settings (b).

(a) can be solved in extracting the firmware from the PVR CD calling 'ivtvfwextract.pl /cdrom'

(b) depends on your PVR
call 'modprobe tveeprom' gives you some output in /var/log/messages

Feb 11 20:58:49 mythtv kernel: tvee: Hauppauge: model=48134, rev=J347, serial#=6819038
Feb 11 20:58:49 mythtv kernel: tvee: tuner=LG TP18PSB01D (idx=47, type=28)
Feb 11 20:58:49 mythtv kernel: tvee: tuner fmt=PAL(B/G) (eeprom=0x04, v4l2=0x00000007)
Feb 11 20:58:49 mythtv kernel: tvee: audio_processor=CS5331 (type=9)

In my case line 2 tells us tuner is type=28 and I'm in PAL land (line 3)

My /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv looks like this

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_pal=1 tuner=28
options tuner pal=1
options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=0 pal=1
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c ivtv-fb
post-install ivtv /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0xff

More details can be found @ http://ivtv.writeme.ch

Cu,
dev