pvr250 and MythTV

[usleepless at gmail.com]

Joe,

On 2/27/07, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm now running FBSD 6.2 and trying to test the pvrxxx port that was
> sent to this list most recently.
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> I've installed the port successfully after doing my kernel patch, but
> MythTV is still reporting that /dev/cxm0 cannot be probed after
> setting my video device to /dev/cxm0 (this is what you are supposed
> to do, right?)
>
> It says: "Could not open '/dev/cxm0' to probe its inputs"
>
> Here is some info about my card, reported by /var/log/messages, FWIW:
>
>
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: <Conexant iTVC16 MPEG Coder>
> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm_iic0: <Conexant iTVC15 / iTVC16
> I2C controller> on cxm0
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: iicbb0: <I2C bit-banging driver> on
> cxm_iic0
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on
> iicbb0 master-only
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: TCL 2002N-6A tuner
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: SAA7115 rev 1 video decoder
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: MSP3445G-B8 audio decoder
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: IR Remote
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: [FAST]
> Feb 27 02:27:27 mymachine kernel: cxm0: encoder firmware version
> 0x2060039
>
>
>
> I know this probably isn't useful right now, but here is my
> mythbackend spew:
>
>
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mythbackend.sh start
> Starting mythbackend.
> [root at mymachine /usr/ports/multimedia/pvrxxx]# 2007-02-27
> 02:32:56.171 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.264 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.277 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.291 Current Schema Version: 1158
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.318 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.320 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.330 EITHelper: localtime offset -5:00:00
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.344 TVRec(1) Error: Problem finding starting
> channel, setting to default of '3'.
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.358 ChannelBase(1) 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?
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.375 Main::Starting HttpServer
> QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.388 Main::HttpServer Create Error
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.389 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.410 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-3
> www.mythtv.org
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.410 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.414 AutoExpire: Found 0 recorders w/max rate of 0
> MiB/min
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.417 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 0.0 GB w/
> freq: 10 min
> QServerSocket: failed to bind or listen to the socket
> 2007-02-27 02:32:56.423 Failed to bind port 6543. Exiting.
> Mutex destroy failure: Invalid argument
> mythbackend in free(): error: chunk is already free

congrats on your upgrade!

as which user have you been running mythtv-setup? does this user have
the proper rights to /dev/cxm0?

as the mythbackend log states: you need to define an "input" to your
capturecard. i believe this is option 4. in mythtv-setup.

regards,

usleep