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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 25, 2009, 07:00:03 pm »

yeah ! i managed to linuxmce 0810 working im using the 177 nvida reconmended driver i dont know if thats going to be a problem,

However i've run into problem ive googled it and cant find a answer; i run mythtv setup did usual setup cards and so on, mythtv told me cant find listings and run mythfilldatabase --manual,  so i did, it threw out a couple of errors and shut.

So from kde i run mythtv backend, it wants to create a database, it asks for language, then shows me it settings, i.e localhost, ping database, database name and so on, i just click next it fails to ping so i carry on,  it can't connect to database or create table from my guess.  i checked mysql to see if table mythconverg.mythtv is there and its not.

What do i do?

leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 25, 2009, 11:30:50 am »

Hi all

i have managed to install the 180.60 Nvidia driver from this http://tuxicity.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/howto-install-nvidia-manually-in-ubuntu-and-debian/
 However its doesnt work. on reboot it trys to load up kdm but graphics fail, i will take this to the kubuntu forum for a solution

Leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 24, 2009, 02:19:09 am »

ok update i've managed to get linuxmce back up and running to a certian point, i used esc at the grub menu hit recovery mode then selected the repair xserver

then hit resume normal boot, this then took me in to linuxmce i undo the changes i made in the core and rebooted. System restarts back to linucmce with orbitor, ok i thought back to square one but just as i was trying to enter kde desktop the screen went blank.

So i slapped the keyboard in rage a couple of times and the screen came back on tried to go to kde desktop screen went off ?

I rebooted the computer it worked ok this time, got to the kde desktop checked hardware drivers i see a 180 driver available so i activate and restart.

I'm now back to the screen going blank  i have to press f6 f7 or f8 to get the display to come back on, but it wont stay on fo long .
Is there a easy way to install this 180.60 driver from desktop?

Thanks

Leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 23, 2009, 09:42:53 pm »

I dont get a error message when i try to boot it just boots to <you>@dcerouter:~$ do you want the error message that i get when i type startx?

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 23, 2009, 08:43:45 pm »

HI

Perhaps Andrew you can help me I have brought a asus 9400gt but I’m Stuck, I installed kubuntu 8.10 that was ok except it was in safe graphics mode, so run the updates, rebooted the machine, installed the recommended 177 NVIDIA driver, resized screen, increased the size of fonts slightly so I read the small text on screen,

Followed this guide  http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/LinuxMCE-0810_alpha2  went fine no problems. Until!! I found that the screen size went back to small not wide screen and the ui is1.

So I clicked on the video res and sound button, system reboots, but no av wizard so I tried this  http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AVWizard  didn’t work!

I read a post about changing settings on the core so i log in on the home page and changed graphics card to NVIDIA and the box underneath I set to opengl.

That’s made matters worse now on reboot I get a <you>@dcerouter:~$ and that’s it I tried startx command and all I get is something about xorg not working properly! I can only assume this means that I have the wrong driver installed for my system.

So I tried this http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=8460.0 sorry didn’t work I typed telinit 1 in sudo and system goes back to kubuntu loading up bar and it sticks that way

And this http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Display_Drivers same as above

I feel that I’m banging my head up a wall!

Many Thanks Leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 23, 2009, 12:51:49 am »

ive wiped the hard drive and im trying out 0810 so sorry cant answer question unless i end up going back to 0710

Regards

Leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 22, 2009, 09:10:10 pm »

Im moving to 0810, Well trying!

In my previous post i said i was trying to install kubuntu 8.10 but failed at the first hurdle.

I was right my graphics card inno3d 7300 series was no good for kubuntu 8.10, so i got Asus en 9400gt that worked ok.
 Had to install kubuntu 8.10 in safe graphics mode, apt-get update, then system reboot then install the recomended nvidia driver that work ok i couldnt see the font that well but i managed to enlarge fonts

I used the wiki on building 0810 from source however that didn't go so smooth  i keep getting stuck on  something like      (svn branches/linuxmce_build0810 (locked)  of the top of head i cant renember exactly what it was) when doing ./build.sh from source code,   

I will repost if i end up going back to 0710

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 19, 2009, 02:28:20 pm »

LinuxMCE-0710's installation of MythTV is probably causing most of your problems with xmltv and the grabber your using when you run mythfilldatabase. The s-video capture problems you describe are one's we've seen too and to be frank we just use composite capture instead - the quality is very good if configured correctly. The HVR-1100 & HVR-1300 might benefit form updated v4l libs too.

All the best

Andrew

Any sugestions on configuration? im using composite capture now, the picture is better. but still a bit jittery.

Would using lmce 0810 fix all these problems?

Leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 19, 2009, 11:56:18 am »

Hi

I just tried various settings in mythtv general settings on the backend i.e. I use pal but I found pal-n worked better.

However I tried to us 0810 but I couldn’t get past the booting of kbuntu 8.10, my graphics card won’t display correctly, I’m wondering whether my graphics card need replacing?

I found this helped http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2D5NvYf1z8

Leon

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Installation issues / Re: cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 19, 2009, 10:59:10 am »

Update, 

Ive managed to clean up some of the fuzzy snow that appears on the s-video signal on pvr-150 just by making tweeks in mythtv setup how ever it still not fantastic i have streaks down the pivture and there’s no signal on analog.

Does anyone know how to change myth TV aspect ratio permanently  to 16:9?

Leon

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Installation issues / cant get signal or xmltv

« on: September 17, 2009, 06:42:33 pm »

Hi all

Im mystfied, ive tried pvr-150 i get no analog signal just a fuzzy screen and using the s-video for my sky box i get snow on my sky picture! have i done something wrong?

Ive tried hvr-1300 i get no sound s-video is the same picture with snow from sky box and no signal on television however it adds 82 channels when scanning

xmltv doesn't work there's no listings, when i run mythfilldatabase i get a error code 65280.

i have a hvr-1100 but cant find a solution to getting it recongised on mythtv

I'm using 0710rc2

any ideas?

Many Thanks for anyone that can help

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Users / AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition

« on: June 07, 2009, 03:02:27 am »

hi all, thanx for taking a look at this post

I was wondering if any one was using this processor with the core, and could pass on info to its performance?

Many Thanx

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Users / Re: Going nuts trying to find hardware...

« on: May 28, 2009, 02:26:13 pm »

i suggest avoiding any intel chipsets or motherboards, a asus or asrock motherboard will be your best shot... for a MD.
For a core you dont have to be picky just make sure the network port is ok, and you have plenty of pci slots a few pci-e x1 slots and either a in built vga graphics or a agp or pci-e x16 slot.

Renember you can allways add network cards or graphics cards...    Sata drives are tricky to get working (0810 may resolve this) stick to ide and a 32 bit version of linuxMCE with 0710 version.
 
i use asrock n68-s for a MD and i use the vga in built graphics using a vga cable because my tv has has a vga port,  for a core asus m2n68-xx please note there are many version of this motherboard i cant renember which version i have.

im using a en-light server case- because there is plenty of room for my core to breath..

Wintv-hvr 1100/1300/150 installed....
there will be some work to do to get this mobo working but then its linux! you have to put some elbow grease in to get it to work....

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Users / Re: installation questions

« on: May 24, 2009, 10:28:10 pm »

Ok I finally understand how it works now I don’t suppose anyone has realized how handy linuxmce is for a wheelchair user, one remote does all! This is a disabled users dream!

If you have for example, say 6 capture cards/tuners what kind of processor do you need? I understand that a lot of the tuners cards have mpeg-2 and don’t rely on CPU usage but I’m imaging that the more pci/pci-e c**p you add to your core the faster the CPU should be..?

Bare minimum would be a dual core of say 2.2 GHz?

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Users / Re: installation questions

« on: May 24, 2009, 06:15:27 pm »

ok i have another question,  if the s-video input on the PVR-x50 cards works the for example, 'sky box' and there is a ir blaster controling it, how does linuxmce know which channels you have on your sky box? is this where some manual work comes into play?