hi,

try to install knoppmyth r5 cool7 on a compaq desktop computer, with the PVR250 card.

i receive tv programs over a digital sat receiver, focusing the astra1 satellite.
i have the computer connected to the Net, and the sat-receiver using a scart cable to a Marmitek flat tv 4-link box, and from there by a s-video cable to the PVR250 tv-card in the machine.

setup seems to work, till the point there comes up a 'Home' screen, with
"1. General", below that a status bar which doesn't move (is to 50% filled with blue squares),
and below that "5. Channel Editor"....
at that point the machine is frozen...

i suppose the channel scan doesn't work....

what can i do to overcome this?
the above Astra is the only one i can get with my outdoor setup, so cannot be changed.

which settings do i need to receive anything from sattelite??

thanks,
rob
NL

If you are using a satellite receiver, you have to change the channels on the receiver. Either manually, or have mythtv do it through an irblaster. The wiki should have something on this. Search for blaster.

However, if you are only using Astra's non-encrypted (free) services, I believe you can get a cheap DVB-S card and bypass the satellite receiver all together. A much better solution as the digital goes straight to the hard drive directly and you can do channel scans to program the channels

You might want to do a few google searchs on DVB-S and Astra to see what that would give you. I don't have a place to put up a dish, so I'm using DVB-C (cable) and am not sure what Astra's DVB services are like.

Allen

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Is there any reason you are using R5C7 rather than R5E50? DVB (if you are going to use it) handling seems to be much better.
The progress bar you see when starting mythtv-setup is for scaling the on screen graphics.
Have you checked your CD using the md5 sum or when booting off of the CD, use the disk check function?

Bruce S.

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## thank you for yre answer, Allen,



## it would not be a problem to use the channel changing on the sat receiver, as i am used to it to do, and the sat receiver has a remote control.
as -for the first- i only want to record tv-programs in good quality to edit and burn them later to dvd-disk, i don't need extensive possibilities of the knoppmyth program (for now).



## actually i am using the free-to-air service from astra1, and have lying a dvb-s card around... didn't intend to use this though, because it appears to have no hardware-encoding, something the pvr250 *has*, and as i'm having a weak P2 350 Mhz processor in the machine, i didn't want to put the encoding load on the processor.
it tested it in replaying a film on dvd-disk: this is not quite possible fot that processor, i get many dropouts..



## just now i cannot successfully pass (after installing KnoppMyth) the 'user setup',
in the screen 'Home' 1. General and 2. Capture cards are selfexplaining, but 3. Video sources is the bottleneck:
on ' video source setup' page, i can give a name e.g. sat for video source name,
'xml tv settings grabber' i did set to germany (tvtoday); channel frequency table stays on default,
but when i press 'finish' the following screen is sticking in an endless scan procedure...

i don't come along this point...
anything i'm doing wrong here??

rob
NL

## was thinking R5C7 is more recent, have R5E50 on cd too, will try this now.
and will check the cd before installing (will use autoinstall)

thanks for your suggestions,
rob

## new problem:
R5C7 did recognise my ethernet card (Intel type)
R5E50 does **not** find that same card...
(the cd was checked without problems shown up)

rob

The card receives an MPEG2 stream, similar to that output by the PVR250, so theres no encoding problem.
You need to press ALT-TAB to bring a console screen to the front.

That's strange, have you any record of the error messages?

Bruce S.

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## didn't come to error messages yet.
the situation is as:
the machine is bound into an ethernet network (thin ethernet) with a couple of other machines (having BNC nics).
because the 'KnoppMyth's machine has a nic with only RJ45 connector, it is connected to the ethernet cable by a 3Com hub (having a number of RJ45 ports and 1 BNC port).
this setup works
when the C7 version is installed, i can see in the install some leds on the hub which indicate there is a contact to the nic.
on the monitor the setup textlines show the eth0 card of the machine is found and configured (dhcp is set up for the whole network).
i can see the ip-address given to the nic.
the machine can be pinged on this address from another machine in the network.

when i upgrade to E50 *and* when i do a 'new install' of E50, i see the led on the hub is no longer on, and the setup procedure tells me eth0 is not configured by dhcp...
'failed'.

from this i take this latest version doesn't see the card....

i have just downloaded and burned on cd the D1 version, to try what is seen now...

rob

The tv_grab_tvtoday doesn't work from the setup pages (at least last time I tried it). As mentioned above, you need to go to a console window and configure it by hand. I think the option you require is --configure and then answer the questions. Then grab the listings and your channels will be populated. You then link the source to one of the svideo or composite devices in the setup. You will have to probably use trial and error to find the correct one. In my case, I think it was composite2 (I don't have satellite, but I use it for VCR in).

However, I would recommend using the DVB card. As also mentioned above, a DVB-S card receives an mpeg stream directly from the satellite, so there are no encoding requirements. DVB has similar CPU requirements as a PVR-250 card. You get the added plus that you may be able to get EIT program information, so there is no need to mess with any of the grabbers.

For DVB, I would recommend the latest R5E50 as DVB support is much much better now.

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## to be a nice lad, i pulled the pvr 250 out of the computer and inserted the dvb card.
it is a brand new technisat skystar 2 tv...
i installed r5e50 again (as you said), but 2 relevant things:
as before r5e50 doesn't see my network card (intel, pci card)
(on the 'asking for dhcp offer' the process fails (where on other KnoppMyth versions the test ends with 'ok' and a ping-able ip address)
and
the dvb card is not recognised either...

both give quite a problem which i cannot solve on my own.

assume earlier KnoppMyths have no chance at all to become friends with my dvb card, on the contrary these versions do see my network card...

thanks for your suggestions coming soon

rob

Network Problem: You say it got as far as DHCP offer. It is possible that the card was recognized, but a problem occurred when requesting IP address from network. Dumb question, but.... is the box plugged into your router? If so, try running netcardconfig from the command line to see if you can get it working.

DVB card not recognized: You don't say what card/chipset you are using. If you google linux/dvb/card/support I think you will find a web page listing cards that work and cards that don't work. You may even get lucky and find a work-around to get your card to work.

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## it doesn't seem as a network problem to me..
the card is not recognised when i install with R5E50, but when i keep the whole hardware setup unchanged, and install R5D1, the card is recognised and ping-able from other machines in the network.
the whole network is -all the time- connected to a router (freesco 036) and online using a adsl modem.

just now i have installed the R5D1 version of KnoppMyth.
the netcard is working ('sending dhcp broadcast from device eth0 OK, auto lo eth0')
this version seems to see the dvb card too.
but loading the channels seems to give problems, i can not see tv, no weather, no news, internet is possible (but very slow) from the KnoppMyth screen.

maybe i did select a wrong source to get the program-data from (as Astra 1 FTA is mainly german, i took the german source for these)



the dvb card seems to be recognised by D1

i add here all output of dmesg | more
i believe B2C2 statements in the last part are pointing to the dvb card...

Linux version 2.6.17-chw-8 (root@mythtv) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 30 12:38:47 PDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
256MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 61440 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI 2.1 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000e0010
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ GANDHI 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e0080
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ GANDHI 0x00000001 0x00000000) @ 0x000e00cc
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ VILLTBL1 0x00000001 MSFT 0x01000004) @ 0x000e0a73
ACPI: SSDT (v001 COMPAQ PNP_PRSS 0x00000001 MSFT 0x01000004) @ 0x000e198f
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ DSDT 0x00000001 MSFT 0x01000004) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xf808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:effc0000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 splash=silent apm=power-off nomce
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0120a000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 333.141 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 252944k/262144k available (4215k kernel code, 8812k reserved, 1593k data, 252k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 666.92 BogoMIPS (lpj=333463)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e00)
CPU0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 00
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 58k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xed6bd, last bus=1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region f800-f83f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
PCI quirk: region fc00-fc0f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:0c: ioport range 0x15c-0x15d has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xf800-0xf81f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xf820-0xf83f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xfc00-0xfc1f could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: 40000000-408fffff
PREFETCH window: 41000000-41ffffff
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 49152 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
* Found PM-Timer Bug on this chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
* this time source is slow. Consider trying other time sources (clock=)
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
JFS: nTxBlock = 1976, nTxLock = 15814
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.0.33-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation.
pcnet32.c:v1.32 18.Mar.2006 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x42100000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:08:C7:F9:0B:41
ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.54.
dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
winbond-840.c:v1.01-d (2.4 port) Nov-17-2001 Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/drivers.html
uli526x: ULi M5261/M5263 net driver, version 0.9.3 (2005-7-29)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1040-0x1047, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1048-0x104f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SP2514N, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TSSTcorpCD-R/RW SH-R522C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.20 loaded.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f0e:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 600.000 MB/sec
8regs_prefetch: 540.000 MB/sec
32regs : 268.000 MB/sec
32regs_prefetch: 280.000 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 824.000 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 868.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (868.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1 97 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 121 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 85 MB/s
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
raid6: int32x8 85 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 261 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 328 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm mmxx2 (328 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: multipath personality registered for level -4
md: faulty personality registered for level -5
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Suspend2 Core.
Suspend2 Compression Driver loading.
Suspend2 Encryption Driver loading.
Suspend2 Swap Writer loading.
Suspend2 FileWriter loading.
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 PS2M KBD COM1 USB0
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Suspend2 2.2.7.3: You need to use a resume2= command line parameter to tell Suspend2 where to look for an image.
Suspend2 2.2.7.3: Resume2 parameter is empty. Suspending will be disabled.
Suspend2 2.2.7.3: Missing or invalid storage location (resume2= parameter). Please correct and rerun lilo (or equivalent) before suspending.
input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse as /class/input/input1
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 255): journal_recover: JBD: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 93 to 202
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 257): journal_recover: JBD: Replayed 3651 and revoked 3/3 blocks
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed
Adding 385552k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:385552k
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
megasas: 00.00.02.04 Fri Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.007.
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2409]-mh1)
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:14.2 (0004 -> 0005)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:14.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001060
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.3: Found 0000:00:14.3 device
b2c2-flexcop: B2C2 FlexcopII/II(b)/III digital TV receiver chip loaded successfully
flexcop-pci: will use the HW PID filter.
flexcop-pci: card revision 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
DVB: registering new adapter (FlexCop Digital TV device).
b2c2-flexcop: MAC address = 00:d0:d7:12:c4:a5
b2c2-flexcop: found the stv0299 at i2c address: 0x68
DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
b2c2-flexcop: initialization of 'Sky2PC/SkyStar 2 DVB-S' at the 'PCI' bus controlled by a 'FlexCopIIb' complete
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_av'.
usbcore: registered new driver ttusb
usbcore: registered new driver ttusb-dec
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon!
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:09: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440LX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0x44000000
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-chw-8 SMP preempt mod_unload 586 gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
eth0: no IPv6 routers present


## hope posting this is not illegal here

rob

Network: I think we are confusing terminologies. If the card was not recognized by the system, there would be no "eth0" to try the DHCP request on. Usually, a failure at the DHCP request is because the network did not respond with an IP address for the box to use. Running netcardconfig is the best way to see what is going on. Worse comes to worst, reconfiguring for a static IP will probably fix it.

DVB: You can't use the grabbers to populate DVB channels. You have to scan for channels. You create the device, create a source, link them together. Then, in either the device or the source (I can't remember which), there is a SCAN option. This is where it may get difficult as SCAN support had some problems in earlier versions with some cards. If you select "use EIT", program data should appear auto-magically as it is broadcast in the satellite signal.

Just to be clear: In E50, you go into setup and try to add a card. You select type DVB and it responds none found?

No Weather/News: I think these need additional configuration to work. It's been a long time since I used them.

Mythbrowser Slow: Yup. It gets a little better in later releases.

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TBS 8922 PCI (DVB-S2)

new experiences here:

was able to scan SOME channels from the Astra 19.2 satellite (there must be about 200, these list on my satreceiver), not nice my scanned ones are not the ones i want to look at (now i have TellSell and comparable crap).

the scan (on the LNB) was problematic,
it worked (a bit) with a 'full scan' with my defining frequency (12551000), symbolrate (22000000) and polarity (vertical): this info came from a page of the wiki.knoppmyth.net...

BUT i am now running KM and looking at one tv-station (other machine as my mail-machine), but i have very much drop-out in picture and sound.....

the KM box has a celeron 333 and 256 Mb ram, (harddisk is recent, big and fast enough) but the results are unusable..

(may have a comparable board where i can fit a P3 500 processor, and maybe i can come to 384 Mb ram: would this be substantially better?? (to get presentable results))

is this a 'death lane' or could there be hidden processes running??
when, how do i find them?

and on the NIC problematic: some boots let the NIC be recognised from the startup, on other boots the NIC is not found... (everything hardware-relevant is unchanged, so i don't see any cause for this)..

rob

removed, was double post
rob