First of all a BIG thanks to all for the efforts on producing another great product WOOT! WOOT!.

I did an auto upgrade with minimal issues and all is running well. Everything restored with no problems and wifey is happy she can watch her recordings (god help me if I lost just 1 minute of numbers, csi, etc).

Problems encountered were:

1: c7 spawning to fast

A well documented error and I just downloaded and installed the latest NVIDIA driver and problem went away. I think my 7300GT is not detected correctly.

2: My JFS /MYTH volume was not mounted correctly

A quick edit of fstab and change the hda3 type from auto to JFS and all was good. Not sure why this is needed but it works. I prefer JFS over XFS due to reported less cpu requirements.

Thats about it really. I have a fully functional R5.5 happily ticking away. The only other thing seems to be that I have larger fonts on the menu screens. Not sure about that one.

Anyways off I go to investigate any new features.

**EDIT**

Forgot to mention I got a recurring database error just after the restore portion of the upgrade. I changed my bind address in /etc/mysql/my.conf to my NIC address and restarted mysql and problem solved.

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Only problem I've seen so far (on a plain vanilla OTA StdDef TV [PVR350] setup) is that it reports a grabber failure, even though the SkedDirect TV data is being grabbed and there are 14 days worth of data.
The automatic setups are awesome !

If you post the PCI ID for your 7300GT and tell me what driver version you installed, I can put this in the workarounds file.

To get PCI ID, run

to look for your device in human-readable text, then run

and post the one line that begins with the same numbers.

For example:

So now I run lspci -mn and post the line that begins with 05:00.0:

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Human, that reminds me... We need to fill in the directions on these two threads:

Tweaker Tuner Feedback Thread
Tweaker Digital Audio Feedback Thread

I had a whack at the audio one, but am not sure what other info or diagnostics you wanted... Maybe a video output thread would also be appropriate?

OK It is a Nvidia 7300GT AGP and I used the latest driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run from www.nvidia.com and then did the following.

1: At a command prompt after the first reboot I enabled samba with the command (as root)



2: I used my laptop to copy the file over via my SMB Share


3: Move it to the src directory

4: Change to src directory

5: Make it executable

6: Compile the module

7: Load the module

(i think thats it)

And then off it went. I have struck this before and I notice it is shown as "Unknown" so not sure what that means. It is listed in the supported cards section of the readme but hey it works, i'm happy. Once again thanks all its great.

Output of lspci -vv



Output of lspci -mn | grep "01:00.0"

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People, you _REALLY_ and I mean REALLY REALLY don't need to and should not be doing this. This is what the install-nvidia-debian.sh script is for, and why the hints have detailed directions on how to run it. In this case the

command documented in the hints would have done this far more quickly, efficiently and painlessly that this error prone sounding multi-step procedure.

Fair comment but I have tried the install-nvidia-debian.sh script without success in the past. Nothing like waiting for a large file to download only to have the install fail and the source file deleted with a manual download following (perhaps caching the source would be a good addition). Hence a few simple Linux commands certainly doesn't scare me. Although I will admit a fairly strong and broad *NIX skill set. Sorry if the above is outside the scope of this forum but I felt the need to share my experience.

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Well first since 173.14.09 is already on the system, downloading it is redundant, and second the install-nvidia-debian.sh is now very reliable. It just plain works. Both of these points are scovered in the R5.5 Hints.

The main source of the problem you and a few others are having seems to be lspci not being able to get the cards identity, the right drivers and tools are there, but if the cards are not self identifying properly it's nearly impossible for the automation to select and install the right one.

Basically, yes. The root cause is that the nVidia-supplied mapping between PCI ID and driver version does not include a mapping for ID "02e2" so it's coming up empty.

weblst, please help us fix this for others. First, run this command and post the results:

Next, edit /usr/local/share/knoppmyth/nvidia/exceptions.txt to contain this line:

and then run this again and post results:

That should tell the scripting that your device gets driver 173.14.09.

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My pleasure:

Ran check-nvidia-driver-version.pl as root and no results returned.

Edited file as requested and still no results.

cat exceptions.txt

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OK To get this card recognized all it took was the command :



It seemed to download something and it is fine now. Not sure if this can be incorporated in the future because I will obviously loose the fix if I need to reinstall. I think if I ran this just after the initial reboot it may do the job and then my card will be detected.

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Good troubleshooting work! I'll incorporate the (backgrounded) command into the installation process after the network is setup. The worst-case scenario would be if you needed an updated PCI ID list to make your network device work, but that can't really be avoided and doesn't seem to occur much anyway.

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As TJC and others keep saying to use the script - any clues on why the install script wont work in this instance?

See the reply here: http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18855