MythTV port - status report

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Hi,

Just a short status report on the MythTV port.
System:
an amd64 machine running
root at kg-quiet# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #10: Wed Oct 11 19:49:47 CEST 2006     root at kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET  amd64

with a Hauppauge PVR-350 card in it, using the pvr250 driver (multimedia/pvr250).

mythtv-setup runs, but immediately display the warning about the backend running. In this case, the backend is NOT running, but I don't know if this affects anything.
I get one error message in the shell (from where I start mythtv-setup) which might be related:
ps: Process environment requires procfs(5)

When I get to the second screen in mythtv-setup ("2. Capture Cards"), I set up my card as a "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)", and use /dev/cxm0 as video device. It says "Probed info: failed to probe", but I carry on and select "Television" as default input.
On screen 3 ("3. Video Sources") I st up one source, called TV, which uses tv_grab_no. So far, no problems.
Screen 4 ("4. Input Connections") is blank (as in "no lines of information") and I get these error messages in the shell:
Could not query inputs.
eno: Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)

Perhaps the driver I'm using isn't up to the task?
I tried setting the card  up as an analog card also, but that didn't work either.

Also, when I start mythbackend I get this in the logfile:
root at kg-quiet# less /var/log/mythbackend.log
2006-12-24 22:57:58.577 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2006-12-24 22:57:58.601 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-12-24 22:57:58.613 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-12-24 22:57:58.619 Current Schema Version: 1158
Starting up as the master server.
2006-12-24 22:57:58.633 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-12-24 22:57:58.634 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2006-12-24 22:57:58.638 EITHelper: localtime offset 1:00:00 
2006-12-24 22:57:58.659 TVRec(2) Error: Problem finding starting channel, setting to default of '3'.
2006-12-24 22:57:58.661 ChannelBase(2) Error: InitializeInputs(): 
                        Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
                        Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
                        sources to your card's inputs?
ERROR: no valid capture cards are defined in the database.
Perhaps you should read the installation instructions?
2006-12-24 22:57:58.674 Main::Starting HttpServer
2006-12-24 22:57:58.680 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2006-12-24 22:57:58.722 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-3 www.mythtv.org
2006-12-24 22:57:58.726 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-12-24 22:57:58.728 AutoExpire: Found 0 recorders w/max rate of 0 MiB/min
2006-12-24 22:57:58.734 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 0.0 GB w/freq: 10 min

Whew!
More info later.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingfolfsen,
Norway