[ivtv-users] Black screen / no volume problem with recent mercurial source

[John Drescher]

> That happens for two reasons that I can think of:
>
> 1) the mplayer child process is not dead and still has the device open
> (if you used mplayer).  Kill the offending mpayer process.  You could
> also do an fuser on /dev/video* /dev/vbi* /dev/radio* to see what
> process has what device node open.
>
> 2) The kernel oops'ed or bug'ed in the ivtv driver.  When this happens,
> you won't be able to unload the module, but dmesg or /var/log/messages
> should have something in it.
>

Thanks for all the advice. I will try this over the weekend..

John