Neoware CA5 X start problems

[sonichouse]

Hi I have tried to solve this, but I am stumped.

I have a Neoware CA5 booting and fetching kernel/rootfs using PXE.

The error states that the audio device cannot be found.

I have had to force the MM_X_DRIVER='sis' for it to get past the unknown driver issue, I know the documentation say I do not need to do this, but I cannot find a valid list of values. Modprobe shows sis_agp is loaded.

lspci gives

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 550 Host (rev 01)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7019 Audio Accelerator
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 550 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

lspci -nm gives

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00:00.0 "0600" "1039" "0550" -r01 "" ""
00:00.1 "0101" "1039" "5513" -rd0 -p80 "1039" "5513"
00:01.0 "0601" "1039" "0018" "" ""
00:01.2 "0c03" "1039" "7001" -r07 -p10 "" ""
00:01.4 "0401" "1039" "7019" "" ""
00:02.0 "0604" "1039" "0001" "" ""
00:0a.0 "0200" "10ec" "8139" -r10 "10ec" "8139"
01:00.0 "0300" "1039" "5315" "1039" "5300"

My minimyth.cfg is

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MM_X_OUTPUT_HDMI='none'
MM_X_OUTPUT_DVI='none'
MM_X_OUTPUT_TV='none'
MM_X_OUTPUT_VGA='auto'
MM_X_MODE='800x600'
MM_X_DRIVER='sis'

MM_AUDIO_TYPE='analog'
MM_AUDIO_CARD_NUMBER='1'
MM_AUDIO_DEVICE_NUMBER='4'

The minimyth.log gives

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minimyth: configuring audio ...
minimyth: the audio driver does not appear to be loaded.
Exiting eval via last at /etc/rc.d/rc.pl line 80.
minimyth: init failed. check '/var/log/messages' for further details.

The Xorg.log gives

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[751564.952] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.0.log", Time: Thu May 26 15:53:42 2011
[751565.005] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[751565.006] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[751565.016] Parse error on line 2 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        "@NVIDIA_TRUE@" is not a valid keyword in this section.
[751565.018] (EE) Problem parsing the config file
[751565.018] (EE) Error parsing the config file

Any ideas ?

Is there any other information required to diagnose this issue ?

[sonichouse]

Is it time to find another use for this machine ?

[Pablo]

The problem is that (1) MiniMyth does not have the sound driver for the sound hardware in that system, and (2) MiniMyth does not know about the PCI product ID for the video hardware in that system. I can fix both of these problems easily. However, whether or not this system can be used as a MythTV frontend depends on at least two things: (1) does it have a powerful enough CPU to decode the audio and video streams and (2) does it have enough memory to run MiniMyth? From what I have found on the Neoware CA5, it has a processor speed of 200MHz and a maximum memory of 256MB. If this is the case, then I believe the CPU is too underpowered and the maximum memory is too little.

[sonichouse]

Thanks for the followup.

The problem is that (1) MiniMyth does not have the sound driver for the sound hardware in that system, and (2) MiniMyth does not know about the PCI product ID for the video hardware in that system. I can fix both of these problems easily.

If you want to add them in to the next build I will gladly try it.

However, whether or not this system can be used as a MythTV frontend depends on at least two things: (1) does it have a powerful enough CPU to decode the audio and video streams and (2) does it have enough memory to run MiniMyth?

The info I found is http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/NeoCA5/index.shtml

From what I have found on the Neoware CA5, it has a processor speed of 200MHz and a maximum memory of 256MB. If this is the case, then I believe the CPU is too underpowered and the maximum memory is too little.

It can run DSL linux, but as you say, it may be a stretch to run mythfrontend on it.

[Pablo]

Thanks for the followup.

The problem is that (1) MiniMyth does not have the sound driver for the sound hardware in that system, and (2) MiniMyth does not know about the PCI product ID for the video hardware in that system. I can fix both of these problems easily.

If you want to add them in to the next build I will gladly try it.

I have committed the changes to SVN, so they will be in the 78b2 test build.

However, whether or not this system can be used as a MythTV frontend depends on at least two things: (1) does it have a powerful enough CPU to decode the audio and video streams and (2) does it have enough memory to run MiniMyth?

The info I found is http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/NeoCA5/index.shtml

From what I have found on the Neoware CA5, it has a processor speed of 200MHz and a maximum memory of 256MB. If this is the case, then I believe the CPU is too underpowered and the maximum memory is too little.

It can run DSL linux, but as you say, it may be a stretch to run mythfrontend on it.

I suspect that this CPU will not be powerful enough to decode MPEG2 SDTV resolution video and this memory will not be large enough to run mythfrontend. Of course, the only way to know for sure it to try it.

[sonichouse]

Sorry, been a while since I had time to sit down and test this.

Using 0.24-1-78 I get

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Dec 12 17:27:31 (none) local0.info minimyth: processing configuration file ...
Dec 12 17:28:07 (none) local0.warn minimyth: 'unknown audio device. assuming audio gain is '90'.

my minimyth.conf file has

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MM_X_OUTPUT_HDMI='none'
MM_X_OUTPUT_DVI='none'
MM_X_OUTPUT_TV='none'
MM_X_OUTPUT_VGA='auto'
MM_X_MODE='800x600'
MM_X_DRIVER='sis'

MM_AUDIO_TYPE='analog'
MM_AUDIO_CARD_NUMBER='1'
MM_AUDIO_DEVICE_NUMBER='4'

How do I need to specify the new driver ?