I have decided to do a fresh reinstall of my Australian Dragon, documenting everything I did after assembling the hardware.
(Descriptions of what happens and what appears on the screen are enclosed in angle brackets, < >.)

The following three points stuck out:

1) Whenever Linux boots, I get the following error:

<PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@50000000 for 0000:01:00.0>

What does it mean? How do I fix it?

2) During first time configuration, I am supposed to get a dialog asking for my oztivo username and password.
I never got that dialog, how do I get it to ask me again?

3) I can't get the EPG to work. There's an XMLTV error:

<Aborting: Config file does not exist: /root/.mythtv/ozTiVo.xmltv
Do you need to run with --config-file or --configure?>

What does it mean?
I tried running myth-setup --configure, but that doesn't work.
What command do I run to create that ozTiVo.xmltv config file?

============== troubleshooting log =============================

Hardware Platform

this was built to be a KRP-compliant system, the Australian Dragon 2

MOBO Intel DG965WH
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6320
RAM 1 GB DDR2-667 PC2-5300
GPU Asus EN7600GS
CDD Lite-On DVDRW LH-18A1P
CASE Silverstone LC17
TV Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE OEM
SPU Chaintech AV-710
HDD 320 GB WD3200YS
PSU Zalman ZM460B-APS
IR Streamzap

EPG

Browse to oztivo.net <Redirects to http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view>
Register and Login
Click on Guide Data, then the link to the TVGuide (http://minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/tvguide.pl)
Click on Add Stations
Ctrl+click Brisbane free-to-air TV stations: ABC, Briz, Nine, Ten, SBS, Seven, Ten
<a table with dates on the Y axis and stations on the X axis appears, most of it blue>

BIOS settings

Turn on Dragon <displays intel logo>
Hold F2 <enter BIOS menu>
System Setup > Advanced > Peripheral Configuration
Audio : Disable
Esc, Drive Configuration
Configure SATA as : AHCI
Esc, System Setup > Boot
Boot Device Priority : CD/DVD-ROM Drive, Floppy Drive, Hard Disk Drive, Ethernet
<Insert KnoppMyth R5F1 installation CD-ROM into drive, close tray>
Exit > Exit Saving Changes, <prompt>, Y

Installing Software

Boot Dragon with Installation CD-ROM inside.
<KNOPPMYTH with a boot prompt appears>
ausdragon2
<white on black - "PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@50000000 for 0000:01:00.0">
<some colorful text>
<text mode window in the middle of the screen - KnoppMyth Main-Menu>
1. Test Media
<Everything looks OK at this point. Return to main menu:>
3. Auto Install
<KnoppMyth Timezone : User defined, set to blah blah>
no action Make NO changes
<WARNING: Danger, Will Robinson! This script will auto-install KnoppMyth to disk. Note: this version is still an early version and is under heavy development. The authors take NO responsibility for data loss or hardware damage. Agree?>
Yes
<Input your whole name>
Marco Nadal
<Input your user name>
marco75
<Input your password>
<Input your administration password>
<Input your preferred hostname>
mythtv
<Displays summary. Following services will be started, after each system bootup: #modified>
<System-Options: The installed system will be a debian type system.>
<Several of these options can only be changed in the Configuration file //.knofig>
<No warranty, yada, yada, proceed with blowing up your computer?>
Next
<DESTRUCTION WARNING. ALL of sda will be overwritten, three partitions will be created:>
<5000 MB for the root filesystem, 2000 MB for swap, remainder for /myth for program storage.>
<Continue?>
Yes
Yes
<Formatting occurs. Progress bars lengthen. User goes off to have a cigarette.>
<Installation to sda1 successful. Reboot?>
OK
<colored text>
<Please remove CD, close cdrom drive and hit return [auto 2 minutes].>
<CD tray ejects, then loads again half a second later>
<user ejects CD, takes disk, closes tray, and hits Enter>

Configuring Software

<white on black - "PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@50000000 for 0000:01:00.0">
<more text, HDD grinds. A terminal window : Please provide the root Password:>
<text mode inside the terminal window : Configuration of MythTV>
OK
<Timezone>
Timezone, Australia, Brisbane, Yes
<timezone is set to Australia/Brisbane and you current date/time is: Local: Tue Jul 17 18:33:17 EST 2007 Universal: Tue Jul 17 08:33:17 UTC 2007>
Finish
<Use DHCP broadcast?>
Yes
<it checks for updates, some text runs past, then mythTV appears>

1. General
TV format: PAL
VBI format: PAL Teletext
Channel frequency table: australia

2. Capture cards
New capture card
<Capture Card Setup>
Card type: MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)
Video device: /dev/video0 (repeat with /dev/video1)
Probed info: WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1) [ivtv] (repeat with (unit #2))
Default input: Tuner 1

3. Video sources
New video source
name: ozTiVo
XMLTV listings grabber: Australia
tv_grab_au: Configuration will run in the terminal window
[ ] Perform EIT Scan
Channel frequency table: default

4. Input connections
<a list of the two tuners and their input jacks>
[ MPEG : /dev/video0 ] (Tuner 1)
<Connect source to input>
Display name (optional): RF1
Video source: ozTiVo
External channel change command:
Preset tuner to channel:
[ Scan for channels ] [ Fetch channels from listings source ]
Starting channel:
Input Priority: 0

Choose Fetch channels, Scan for channels
Scan Type
Video Source: ozTiVo <grayed out>
Capture Card: [MPEG : /dev/vide- <runs off the screen>
Scan Type: Full Scan
<Scanning. Adds 6 channels>
Finish
<Starting channel has changed to '2'>

Repeat for /dev/video1

5.Channel Editor
Edited Channel Name to something more sensible, otherwise, left everything as it is.

<I escape out of the Channel Editor, out of Config, got this error message:
Card 0 (type ) is set to start on channel 2, which does not exist.
Do you want to fix this problem?>
No, I know what I am doing
<something about restarting the backend and running mythfilldatabase>

<LIRC Configuration>
No Remote
<You can re-run this script anytime. As root:/usr/local/bin/lirc-reconfig.sh
grep: /etc/htdigest: No such file or directory

Enter a good password at the prompts for MythWeb access ...
Adding password for mythtv in realm MythTV>

<backend restarts>
<can watch TV now, but there's no EPG info loaded>
Exit MythTV
<back at the terminal window>
$ su
# mythfilldatabase
<2007-07-18 06:29:27.446 Using runtime prefix = /usr
New DB connection, total: 1
Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
New DB connection, total: 2
Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Updating source #1 (ozTiVo) with grabber tv_grab_au
------------ Start of XMLTV output ----------------
New DB connection, total: 3
Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Aborting: Config file does not exist: /root/.mythtv/ozTiVo.xmltv
Do you need to run with --config-file or --configure?
------------ End of XMLTV output ------------------
Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
Updating icons for sourceid: 1
New DB connection, total: 4
Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Updated programs: 0 Unchanged programs: 0
New DB connection, total: 5
Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
Failed to fetch some program info
Adjusting program database end times.
0 replacements made
Marking generic episodes.
Found 0
Marking repeats.
Found 0
Unmaeking new episode rebroadcast repeats.
Found 0
Marking episode first showings.
Found 0
Marking episode last showings.
Found 0

=======================================
| Attempting to contact the master backend for rescheduling.
| If the master is not running, rescheduling will happen when
| the master backend is restarted.
=========================================
Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1 of 5)
Using protocol version 31
mythfilldatabase run complete.

Mythfilldatabase is supposed to be run as the mythtv user, as running as root tries to access the files under /root/.mythtv, rather than /home/mythtv/.mythtv .

I don't think your "PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6" error is much of a problem as apparently you system is able to detect the PCI devices correctly.
It might be worthwhile adding pci=nommconf to your lilo boot prompt to see if it goes away (this is from my post here).

Bruce S.

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16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

When I run mythfilldatabase as user mythtv, should the backend be off (Alt + 2) or on (Alt + 3)?
I get errors either way, but I want to report the right kind of errors. ;->


I used nano to look at /etc/lilo.conf, but I'm unsure where to add the line pci=nommconf:

# where your other OS' partition is.
#
# other=/dev/hda4
# label=HURD
# restricted
# alias=3
image=/boot/bzImage.2.4.20.poweroff
label=PowerOff
# End

Where does it go? Your other post mentions an append statement.

yes the pci error is not a problem. it happens to many if not dragons. human and manicmike say not to worry about it and i believe them.

that tuner card is analog correct? ausdragon uses two digital cards. in my experience the ausdragon2 scrip doesnt work correctly with analog cards. well.. at least with my analog cards. the epg script is linked to the tuner cards - so if you delete the two digital tuner cards that are automatically installed with the ausdragon2 scrip - you'll prevent the epg script from running.

the solution is to run the epg script after the initial install. before you do the post install setup, run manicmikes fixepg-au.sh ... i believe as mythtv user. just search the forum for fixepg-au.sh and you'll find two posts.

The backend should be running.
But I would follow Steve's instructions first.

Bruce S.

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16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

I couldn't get the Airstar tuner card from ANY supplier, but I decided to substitute with the Hauppage PVR500 because a) it had two tuners, and b) "the most common hardware gets the best coverage and community support. For example, the most common capture cards are the PVR-250, PVR-350, HD-3000, and Air2PC." (source: http://www.mysettopbox.tv/KRP.html) I didn't anticipate KnoppMyth to be so exacting in its requirements.
I tried doing a reinstall with a different boot argument:

Boot Dragon with Installation CD-ROM inside.
<KNOPPMYTH with a boot prompt appears>
tv country=au
<Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG.
PCI: PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@50000000 for 0000:01:00.0

Welcome to the KnoppMyth Linux Installation CD!

Scanning for USB/Firewire devices... Done.
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.

So I have to do a complete reinstall? WIth the ausdragon2 argument?
At what point of the procedure documented in my first post do I insert the # sh fixepg-au.sh statement?
Is the script included in R5F1? Or do I have to type it in? And what about getting Firefox on here?

i bought the ausdragon tuner cards from manicmike .. given mike put the effort into writing an the script, I figured 'd support that by buying from his store. they were no more expensive than other stores anyway... they're a hundredish bucks. you can also import the card from europe if you'd like. i have seen it in shopbot .. but its not right now.

you can use the default boot. i mean just press enter at the boot prompt. (sorry.. im not really linux savy.. so my nouns may be clumsy at times). or any appropriate one for your tv etc. and then run fixepg-au.sh before the post install setup. I'm sure the script-au.sh is included with

just search for manicmikes original post for the details.. it should help but i think that fixepg-au.sh would be included in 5DF1 - so you probably won't have to create it as described in mikes post.

It looks like you don't need to do the PCI=nommconf, as that error message you had previously had is still there.

Bruce S.

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16Gb PC 1866 DDR3, 500GB+2TB+4TB SATA HDD,
SATA DVD-RW Asus DRW-24D5MT , NVIDIA GeForce GT1080
Hauppauage Nova-T 500, Nova-T LinHes R8.6.1

Hi all,

Sorry for not seeing this earlier.

The pci error is nothing to worry about. Ignore it

The epg setup failed when someone (almost certainly Human) changed the KnoppMyth-run script. The script now detected the Aus machine as one of his, and bypassed my Aus setup I've put in a patch that fixes this, but am not yet sure whether or not Cecil has included it yet.
To run the Aus tweaker manually, do the following:
1. pop up a terminal screen (alt+x)
2. turn the backend off (alt+2)
3. run setup (alt+s)
4. Perform a channel scan, then quit setup
5. in the terminal, type "AusDragonTweaker.sh" and follow it through
6. restart the backend (alt+3)
7. in the terminal, type "mythfilldatabase". If it's successful, you'll get something like "876 programs inserted" (or something like that)
8. Ctrl+d will get rid of the terminal

Bob should now be your uncle

The Technisat airstar2 tuners are available from www.digitalnow.com.au He is the importer and has loads of them right now. They're $99 each + delivery.

Cheers

Mike

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Australian Dragon
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That stupid script set my capture cards back to digital. I thought all capture cards were just block devices to the kernel, like /dev/video0 for the first one, /dev/video1 for the second one etc. Why does an EPG script need to change the capture device, can't it just use the one that's already there?

The capture device I installed is compatible with Linux, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to use it...

Oh, and another thing... this box doesn't have analog sound (lime green stereo plug). Do I have to plug everything into the SP/DIF on the Chaintech? Or is there a way I can enable both at the same time?

I wrote the script to set up the Aus dragon, which has two digital capture cards. If you run it as though it were a Dragon but don't have one, you need to re-set the cards.
I figured that even if you have to do this again, it saves you loads of time in setting up other things. You don't have to use it if you prefer to do all the other tweaks manually. If you come up with a better script, please email me the diff and I'll test it for submission for the next release.

If you have a Chaintech, you should use it. If you have an SP/DIF amp, then enable digital output. The script should detect the card and set it to SP/DIF out. The Chaintech also outputs 7.1 analogue, so you actually do have analogue sound.

Regards

Mike

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I was a bit concerned to see this, so I checked my SVN repository to see what could have changed. There was some rearranging in KnoppMyth-run, but other than the code cleanup I did to make your $IS_AUS checks actually work (they had to be in double quotes) I didn't see any logic changes. Your patch uses syntactic sugar and changes the order of the logic, but it should not have made a difference.

Are you sure it isn't some other underlying cause, like $IS_AUS not being set to begin with?

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Hi Human,

I found it was detecting my hardware better after the F1 release, and put it down to your great hardware detection. Whether or not it due to your h/w detection, I'm not assigning responsibility in any way or blaming anyone, other than myself for not making my contribution more sturdy.

The h/w detection must therefore have been kernel based, probably now supporting the variants we use in Australia.

I appreciate the good work we all do, but get annoyed at my own flaws, nothing else. I've submitted a patch anyway, and will attempt an install tonight to see if the Aussie bird will fly again

Regards

Mike

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Australian Dragon
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After briefly trying out Ubuntu 7.04, and using the MythTV package distributed with that distro, I have returned to KnoppMyth to try and study those EPG scripts everyone talking about.

I have followed my earlier procedure up to the line that reads '1. General'. I'm a bit confused as to what script I am supposed to run: Is it fixepg-au.sh or AusDragonTweaker.sh?

Should I do the following:

1. pop up a terminal screen (alt+x)
2. turn the backend off (alt+2)
3. run setup (alt+s)
4. Perform a channel scan, then quit setup
5. in the terminal, type "AusDragonTweaker.sh" (or fixepg-au.sh) and follow it through
6. restart the backend (alt+3)
7. in the terminal, type "mythfilldatabase". If it's successful, you'll get something like "876 programs inserted" (or something like that)
8. Ctrl+d will get rid of the terminal

I think since the scripts are so specific, it would be helpful if they were named appropiately, e.g. 'AusDragonTweakerDigital.sh' for the version written by Bob Igo and Mike Williams, and 'AusDragonTweakerAnalog.sh' for the modified version I'm fiddling with now.

Also, how does one implement hardware detection in Linux? A future version of KnoppMyth could pop open a dialog and proclaim: "Congratulations! Your hardware meets KRP specifications.", and have an EPG setup dialog, as part of the procedure that sets the system clock. The user already supplies the country and city in that one, all it needs to ask is which EPG provider they are with, and their username and password for that provider.

Of course that kind of user friendliness may be a long way off, but through collaboration, it should be possible.

What do you think?

The AusDragon is a digital box, so I don't have to specify it
Your modification won't be digital and thus not a dragon, so you shouldn't have to worry about this. You can name your script anything you want.
Again, if you want to write scripts, I encourage it. Human has written substantial hw detection into KnoppMyth-run, so you should have a look at this first.

Your scripts will not be part of the Aus Dragon setup, but you can add them to the distro as part of a more general hardware detection. Fiddle with the KnoppMyth-run script (you'll learn a lot) and see if it works with your mods. This script is run when people install KM, and you can trigger its run with "touch /home/mythtv/configure" then restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace).
I can help you with testing it (to see if it interferes with anyone else's stuff).

Cheers

Mike

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Australian Dragon
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