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Users / Switching from UI1 / UI2 / UI3 - without AVwizard - HOWTO?

« on: April 27, 2008, 11:37:25 pm »

Hi forum,

One way or the other it is tremendously difficult to have the AVwizard on screen on my system.
Until now I have really not been able to pinpoint a constant behaviour to make the AVwizard appear.

Apart from that my hybrid / core works very good.

What is the way, where can I change the setting from UI3 back to UI2 or UI1 in the config files?
I want to avoid using the AVwizard on this machine at all cost.

Thanks for your input!

Erwin

182

Installation issues / Re: DHCP - combine with other DHCP - HOWTO?

« on: April 24, 2008, 03:26:41 pm »

Thom,

Thanks for your input.
I'm not a developer, but I'm sure willing to help where help is possible and acceptable.
Suggestions always welcome!
After all, it's all about doing it together, isn't it?

Erwin

183

Installation issues / Re: DHCP - combine with other DHCP - HOWTO?

« on: April 24, 2008, 10:04:11 am »

Hi folks,

Here's some more 2cents:
Since the beginning of this year I've had my fair chair of LMCE. Fortunately I'm in a position I've a lot of hardware lying around and I can afford to spend some on testing LMCE. I realize very well that LMCE is a SUM of quite a few other fine projects s.a. MythTV, Pluto, Asterisk just to name a few. Before LMCE I didn't have any experience with MythTV which already offers quite some possibly 'complicated' capabilities.
It is also true that the 'average' hobbyist will far from spontaneously realize the intrinsic interwovenness of these components. Therefore it is logic and natural for a lot of people to get frustrated, in spite of the beauty of this project.

I, for one, purely out of practicality find it extremely annoying having LMCE hand out DHCP.
At my place lives a 'small' network holding amongst others 3 networked printers, a networked scanner, NAS etc.
For various reasons it is just plain 'easier' to have some of these have fixed IP.
Until now I have not met a solution that will provide seamless DNS in conjunction with DHCP specifically for those printers & scanner. Also it is not obvious at all to have samba serve out printer drivers for these specific printers...

To accomodate LMCE at various moments I have shut down my firewall DHCP etc.
Each time I've ran into situations where e.g. the TV card (HVR 1100) would not work or, as it is a growing system, that I have to reboot or reorganize the LMCE machine.
At such moments it is a plain misery to have all of your 'small' network disfunction because IP's have changed or subnets have been altered..

Also I have tested +/- 5 VGA cards, all nVidia type, and have found them not easy at all to configure using the AVwizard. I feel the AVwizard is marvelous, but not yet finished. How do you know what connector you have to connect to? Often you have one DVI and one VGA connector, sometimes they have 2 DVI, sometimes you have an extra S-Video output, at other times you have one connector with a special cable splitting in 2 to connect multiple monitors. It is often very difficult if not impossible to find out what will be the primary output a specific card will default to.

Now my suggestion:
I have been working with a specific server type Linux distro named Syn-3. It's Slackware based. It is a Dutch group of guys that have put together this specific distro. It has various interesting points into which I will not digg into any deeper. Just to name a couple: installs a complete server in less than 15 minutes! (it's simly the fastest I know...) and now it gets interesting:
It has a completely configurable firewall and DHCP server aboard, off course DNS etc are also present.
Now what is intresting about this?
As the system will, depending on number of nic's present, divide the setup in several zones, like LAN, WAN, DMZ, it has to communicate with the user which adapter is which.
This is solved in a way that the PC will beep once, twice, or three times (at various tones) if you connect / disconnect a network cable.
For a starter this is a foolproof way of determining what is connected to what.
I don't have the technical knowledge, but could this be conceived for VGA adaptors as well?
Can the system 'measure' if a device is connected to output 1 or 2? I'm not 100% sure this is possible for all devices but maybe this is a way to make the 'Wizards' more fool proof?

What is also interesting in Syn-3 is the fact that it has a graphical control interface onboard allowing you to monitor various services an shut them down or restart.
I really think there should be a more integrated control interface (perhaps webmin(?))
Also it would be interesting to have a little more feedback from the system, as it quite often happens that reaction time is longer than the average users patience, leading to unclear situations.

Just my 2cents,

Erwin

184

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1110 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 22, 2008, 12:34:16 am »

Perhaps this lead can shed some more light?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=130129

To me it's still unfinished business...

185

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1110 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 22, 2008, 12:16:10 am »

I just realized today that I could run it from computing;
I usually switch to KDE -

But, until now, my system freezes regularly and I seem to have sync problems, as image is jumpy and sound is like Donald Duck...

As far as I can tell, with your knowledge, you should get things better running than I can?

186

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1110 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 21, 2008, 11:39:34 pm »

What is happening?
For testing purposes I scheduled a recording.
When I came to check, the core was frozen...

Hard reset.
Then I got TV AND sound...
But....

Image is not fluent, and sound is playing far too fast, like Donald Duck voice....

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top - 23:36:51 up 6 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.20, 1.24, 0.63
Tasks: 215 total,   2 running, 213 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 24.2%us,  5.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 69.4%id,  0.5%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2594704k total,  1008540k used,  1586164k free,    87084k buffers
Swap:  1951856k total,        0k used,  1951856k free,   461828k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 7273 mythtv    15   0  281m  60m  12m S   25  2.4   0:47.74 mythbackend
16211 root      15   0  232m 122m  35m S   19  4.8   0:40.77 mythfrontend.re
16287 root      15   0 26848  16m 4544 S    3  0.7   0:02.33 flickr.pl
11066 root      15  -1  107m  92m  22m R    2  3.7   0:06.88 Xorg
 5135 mysql     15   0  145m  44m 5596 S    0  1.8   0:06.54 mysqld
14349 root      15   0  110m  43m  12m S    0  1.7   0:02.16 Orbiter
21267 linuxmce  15   0  2496 1224  876 R    0  0.0   0:00.08 top
21833 root      25   0  2916 1444 1108 S    0  0.1   0:00.01 auto.PlutoStora
    1 root      18   0  3352 2204  532 S    0  0.1   0:01.84 init

I have no clue...

187

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1110 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 21, 2008, 09:25:00 pm »

Zaerc,

After some more fiddling I somehow managed to get MythTV going with the HVR 1110.
I tried to follow as much as possible the above mentioned guides.
Downloaded w_scan etc and tried to setup a channel.conf but this would not work (probably due to my lack of knowledge :-() so I couldn't get Kaffeine to run with the card, or better, I was unable to pick a channel.

As I kept being intrigued by my one channel, I found (via http:\\dcerouter\mythweb) that I had only one channel from another source.. Next I let that source rescan and presto...

But as of yet, I have no sound...

188

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1100 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 21, 2008, 01:58:01 pm »

Thx Zaerc,

I was already following a mix of several guidelines I found on the internet.
What bothers me though is that I don't really understand what I'm doing and thus working actually blindly... which I don't like..

I followed this:

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The Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1110 is a hybrid receiver card (analog and DVB-T).

It sometimes ships in a HVR-1100 box. The HVR-1110, however, is of triangular shape, while the HVR-1100 board is a typical rectangular shaped card. There are significant component differences too. See here for more details.

The HRV-1110 uses the following components:

    * a Philips SAA7131 A/V decoder & bridge
    * a Philips TDA10046 digital demodulatorfrom here: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1110#Installing_the_Firmware

Indeed it says HVR-1110 is sometimes shipped in HVR-1100 box. (My case, I still have the box)

Next following this part:

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Downloaded the firmware script by itself:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kerne...rmware;hb=HEAD
from here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=623126&page=2

I managed to get the firmware, and put it in /lib/firmware

Next after rebooting I saw the firmware was loaded.
Up to here I'm fine I guess.

Sarah still doesn't see the video capture card.
When I open MythTV I get to see one channel, and can't change frequencies.
The only way (I found till now) to exit MythTV is killin X (Ctrl-backspace) and then Alt F2 and login and restart X.

I seem to have no sound either.
I found this here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=298094&page=2

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sox -c 2 -t alsa hw:1,0 -t alsa default
This gave me at least sound, it was distorted and pulsing but it was sound.
The image would be gone if i switched to MythTV.
Next I tried to switch to MythTV first, had my one channel playing with no sound,
issued the above command from CLI to receive a message that the sound device was inaccessable..

So I guess I'm on the right track, but still not all the way there...

Have you got any more suggestions??

Thanks a lot!!

Erwin

189

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1100 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 21, 2008, 09:11:59 am »

Indeed it is a triangular one.

190

Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1100 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 20, 2008, 02:11:33 pm »

Okay, next phase:

Did a fresh DVD beta4 install with the HVR 1100 on board.
Linux detects the HVR 1100, but Sarah the Wizard doesn't see the card.
After applying the patch forementioned by gazlang, the card is recognized in MythTV.
The 100% CPU problem doesn't exist anymore.

Remaining problem:
No sound.

Also I see following in the logs:

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Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   44.225816] tuner 0-004b: chip found @ 0x96 (saa7133[0])
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   44.273734] tuner 0-004b: setting tuner address to 61
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   44.317662] tuner 0-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   45.695357] tuner 0-004b: setting tuner address to 61
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   45.735290] tuner 0-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.065084] saa7133[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.065337] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.065583] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.133011] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:0d.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.154935] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.154975] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xdfeff800 irq 21 registered as card -2
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.381266] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.381275] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.429691] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.460409] tda1004x: setting up plls for 48MHz sampling clock
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.496385] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.502592] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (8192 buckets, 65536 max)
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   47.786501] Adding 1951856k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:19518
56k
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   48.095350] tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   48.095356] tda1004x: trying to boot from eeprom
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   48.124382] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   48.488846] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   48.488856] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   50.423479] tda1004x: timeout waiting for DSP ready
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   50.463413] tda1004x: found firmware revision 0 -- invalid
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   50.463419] tda1004x: waiting for firmware upload...
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   50.783876] tda1004x: no firmware upload (timeout or file not found?)
Apr 19 20:44:04 dcerouter kernel: [   50.783883] tda1004x: firmware upload failed
Any pointers as to this tda1004x firmware?
Has this anything to do with failing sound?

Thanks for your help!

Erwin

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Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1100 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 19, 2008, 02:08:49 pm »

Thanks gazlang,

I applied the patch you indicated just now.
Trying mythtv doesn't work yet.

Trying to run make in ~/v4l-dvb still reports error:

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linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ cd v4l-dvb
linuxmce@dcerouter:~/v4l-dvb$ make
make -C /home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l'
creating symbolic links...
Kernel build directory is /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l  modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran_procfs.o
In file included from /home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran_procfs.c:50:
/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran.h:272: error: redefinition of 'struct v4l2_jpegcompression'
make[3]: *** [/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran_procfs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l'
make: *** [all] Error 2
linuxmce@dcerouter:~/v4l-dvb$
Tail Xorg.0.log gives this while starting MythTV on the core:

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select returned 0
select returned 0
select returned 0
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1280 hbeg: 1328 hend: 1440 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1024 vbeg: 1025 vend: 1028 vttl: 1066 flags: 5
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1280 hbeg: 1328 hend: 1440 httl: 1688
              vdsp: 1024 vbeg: 1025 vend: 1028 vttl: 1066 flags: 5
select returned 0
select returned 0
select returned 0
Next I find that Xorg rev's to CPU 100%...

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!

Erwin

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Installation issues / Re: Get HVR-1100 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 16, 2008, 02:28:36 pm »

Okay folks...
Here's an update:

After a night's rest it seems that the HVR-1100 is properly configured - don't ask me what or how - as I don't really understand what's happening.

First I have to say that the first time I "SAW" TV on LMCE happened as follows:
Core / hybrid without TV card;
Media Director booting via PXE - with PVR 150
At that time I clearly remember being stumped, as I was trying to get TV out of the media director via the Sony TV connected to the MD's S-Video output. At a point ready to give up, I descended one floor to where the core / hybrid was situated to find TV playing on the core's orbiter!!
So far so good -

Back to the newly installed HVR-1100 in my core / hybrid:
Today I find that I can watch 2 programs at the same time on my media director!!
Operation is not clear to me at all at this moment;
When I open up the orbiter on the MD and choose to watch TV this starts ok.
Next I switch to KDE and fire up Mythtv from the KDE menu.
And I get a second image, clearly coming from my core / hybrid TV card!!!
At this time I haven't found out how to change channel, also I have no sound. (logical (?) as I continue hearing the sound of TV playing on the orbiter)

When I consult http://dcerouter/mythweb and choose 'status', it says:

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MythTV Status
Encoder status
Encoder 2 is remote on moon49 and is watching Live TV: 'Nieuws' on 112. This recording will end at 2:15 PM.
Encoder 3 is local on dcerouter and is watching Live TV: 'Meiden van de Wit' on 106. This recording will end at 2:40 PM.
On the core, I have the orbiter on screen and can do anything I want APART FROM watching TV.
If I choose TV - Xorg and keyb freezes....

Does this shed some light?
Thanks for any tip or advice!

Erwin

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Installation issues / Get HVR-1110 going - HOWTO?

« on: April 16, 2008, 12:42:17 am »

Hi forum,

As per this post    
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=2928.0, I have tried getting my HVR-1100 going.

Running DVD install beta4.
One core/hybrid
One P4 media director booting off PXE - containing PVR-150

It is on the core that I have added the HVR-1100.

In Myth Backend the card is recognised.
In dmesg I find this:

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[   62.747611] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0]).
[   62.747680] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Philips TDA10046H DVB-T)...
When configuring Myth I can have it scan for channels (at least I think it is not the card on the media director that's scanning..) Myth is adding channels....

Every time I try to choose Watch TV, X blanks out and freezes, keyboard and screen.
The core keeps running, I can ssh into it.

When I try to follow the post and apt-get install mercurial, this is running ok.
After cd-ing into v4l-dvb, and issuing make I get following error:

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linuxmce@dcerouter:~/v4l-dvb$ make
make -C /home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l'
creating symbolic links...
Kernel build directory is /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l  modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran_procfs.o
In file included from /home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran_procfs.c:50:
/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran.h:272: error: redefinition of 'struct v4l2_jpegcompression'
make[3]: *** [/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l/zoran_procfs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/linuxmce/v4l-dvb/v4l'
make: *** [all] Error 2
linuxmce@dcerouter:~/v4l-dvb$

Any advice greatly appreciated!!

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Users / List DHCP connections - HOWTO?

« on: April 13, 2008, 12:58:48 pm »

Hi forum,

Is there any way to view / list what dhcp addresses are issued by LMCE's dhcp server?
This may be handy if you want to connect to a headless box but don't know the IP address.

Thank you,

Erwin

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Users / Re: LCD flat panel - 100 Hz - worth while?

« on: April 08, 2008, 10:17:07 pm »

Thx Guys,

As a matter of fact my choice would also be the Sharp Aquos 46", either 100Hz or not...

Thanks,

Erwin