[mythtv-users] X server on pvr-350 tv-out

jose rubio debian at nc.rr.com
Tue Dec 30 08:21:36 EST 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 00:23, David Margrave wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got things working great with the X server and the myth TV UI on a
> monitor, and with tv set to /dev/video16.
> 
> When I set the X server to run on the tv-out, I get the following
> behavior:
> 
> - without the 'use pvr-350' in playback settings, I get slow video and no
> sound on the tv, the X server takes nearly 100% of the CPU on my athlon
> 1.8
> - with the 'use pvr-350' setting, I get just a black screen.
> 
> Basically everything works fine, until I try to get X and the tv-out to
> play together.
> 

Not sure what you mean by "tv set to /dev/video16"... but:

You have to have the "use PVR-350" box checked, otherwise you will get
the "slow video".

When you get the black screen, do you get sound?

Is the gui for mythfrontend displaying in the tv?  if not make sure to
set the display to 0.1 before you run mythfrontend:

$ export DISPLAY=:0.1 && mythfrontend

Do you get the gui?  Do you still get the black screen?

If you don't get the gui, make sure that all the ivtv modules get loaded
_before_ you start X.  in particular the ivtv_fb module.


hope that helps.



-jose-



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