[mythtv-users] Questions about MythTV on FC2 Asus Pundit, 2.6.8.1

[Abhi]

Anybody using FC2 on ASUS pundit with PVR-350 card:

- Would you mind sending me your modules.conf and xorg.conf file
- Should I use pundit TV-out or PVR-350 TV-out?

thanks
- Abhi


--On Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:52 PM -0700 Abhi <abhi at 4961ocean.org> wrote:

> Warning: Some of these are newbie questions, i.e. Don't mind my ignorance!
>
> I have FC2 installed on a ASUS Pundit with Hauppauge PVR-350 Capture card.
>
> - Could not get lirc (from the CVS) to compile, so had to upgrade to the
> latest kernel, 2.6.8.1 and then it compiled fine. Guess its an issue with
> i2c support in the kernel, but I don't know enough
>
> - Got the sis_drv from the ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck105n.tgz from
> <http://67.18.1.101/~ckennedy/ivtv/>
>
> - Ran glxgears, I see a FPS of about 200 on a VGA monitor. Is this good?
>
> - I remember reading somewhere that this should be about 1000+, after
> updating the sis drivers?
>
> -  Moved to TV out (RCA jack) on the Motherboard, the quality on the TV
> is rather poor. I plan on moving to S-Video on the 350, but figured I
> should do it incrementally! Is this related to the glxgears observation
> above. Can someone send me a sane xorg.conf file
>
> - Should I use sisctrl to tune this quality on TV-out? What should I
> change?
>
> - I had to manually load ivtv, lirc_i2c after a reboot. Is there a way to
> fix this? I have added entries in modules.conf as per the
> <http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php>
>
> - When I start lircd I get the following error:
>   "lirc cannot get serial information: error 515"
>
> - I have to start irw as root, to test the remote.
> - What perms should the /dev/lirc* files have?
> - What perms should the /dev/video* files have?
>
> - I have to start mythfilldatabase, mythtvfrontend, backend as root.
>
>
> Any info/pointers would be really great
> thanks
> - Abhi
>