Hi

I'm running a PIII 1 ghz
128 ram
ATI Rage something . . video card
Asus TV FM Card
19' BenQ LCD

I set-up everything per instructions, downloaded the listings, ran mythfilldatabase (the first automatic attempt failed). When I select watch TV here's what happens:

1) Blackness
2) A brief flash of blue(?)
3) Blackness
4) Text on upper-left hand corner "1: Television "
5) Fade to black

Nothing else. I can escape back to the main myth screen, so its not frozen. I looked at the backend logs, there's an error indicated. Here's what I get:

2006-01-13 01:24:33.454 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-13 01:24:33.464 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-13 01:24:33.487 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-01-13 01:24:33.506 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2006-01-13 01:24:33.519 adding mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
2006-01-13 01:24:33.542 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
strange error flushing buffer ...

I also looked at the /home/mythtv/.xsession-errors log

I got two errors repeatedly:

taking too long to be allowed to read ..
Waited too long for ringbuffer pause ..

Thanks for reading this and hopefully someone will know what the matter is, or point me in the right direction

PS: One more thing, with mythtv running (but not viewing anything) I only have 36 megs of RAM free. Could this be causing the problem?
[edit: sp error]

Does your video card support Xv? Are you using the ATi drivers? Perhaps you need to specific card and tuner type.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Okay:

The video card is an ATI rage 128 Pro 16 Mb card (model 63109).
I downloaded the drivers but couldn't get the RPM to install as it required XFree86 to be installed. I've read that the rage 128 pro is widely supported in linux distributions. According to xvinfo my video card supports XV extensions

The Capture Card is an Asus TV FM Card 7135
It has a phillips 7135 video decoder

I can't really find anymore info on the capture card than that, the box and the card doesn't give any more model info.

Thanks

EDIT: When I got the xvinfo above I was not logged in as mythtv, I was just in fluxbox logged in as root. However when I logged in as mythtv and accessed the terminal within mythtv as root when I tried xvinfo it replied: "xvinfo: Unable to open display"

I think the issue is probably with your tuner card. Do you know fer certain is is support w/ Linux?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I ran modprobe bttv
and then dmesg
It shows the card as the correct type and autodetected.
So I don't think compatibility with linux is the problem