[mythtv-users] PVR350, ivtvdev_drv, ckennedy drivers and cant use framebuffer

[David]

Bill Chmura wrote:

>Ohhhh, where to begin.
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On the ivtv mailing list?
(nb, please remove the myth cc if you reply :) )

>I've got a PVR350 in my machine and can play back video on it.  I have the 
>ckennedy patched drivers for 100, and I have tried 101.
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Any reason for 101? - are you looking to get involved in testing?
I thought your setup worked - why are you changing it?

>Now I am trying to set up my OSD using the framebuffer so the mythtv screens 
>will go out over the PVR350's tv out.  
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>I've got it all set up for dual screens but have run into a few problems.  
>I've been through gossamer all day and am really just more confused than 
>before.
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dual screens?
What's the other one running?
Are you trying for a dual headed setup?
Or are you intending to pull the plug on the vga once it all works?

>First I tried just running the fbdev driver for X like I did last time.  When 
>I try this I get a message:  
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>"Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer 
>devices"
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>Okay, I only have one fbdrv and I am specifying a bus id for it (I have 
>checked so many times...)  
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>The actual output from lspci is 0000:00:0f.0
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>I have tried all the combinations, and the only one that gets me past this 
>message is BusID "PCI:00:15:0"  ... BusID "00:0x0f:0" is not recognized.
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>Anyway, that way rewards me with 
>(EE) FBDEV(1): mmap fbmem: Invalid argument
>(EE) FBDEV(1): Map vid mem failed
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>So I looked around and I saw some info about how the newer ivtv drivers won't 
>allow direct fb access, and to use ivtvdev_drv instead of fbdev
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>Well, this gives me:
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>(II) LoadModule: "ivtvdev_drv"
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this doesn't look quite right...

>(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
>(EE) LoadModule: Module ivtvdev_drv does not have a ivtvdev_drvModuleData data 
>o
>bject.
>(II) UnloadModule: "ivtvdev_drv"
>(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
>(EE) Failed to load module "ivtvdev_drv" (invalid module, 0)
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Not seen this - but I'm still on #71d

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>Well thats just ducky....  I have no idea what some of this stuff means.
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>If anyone has a clue, please let me know!
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>GAH!
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