[mythtv-users] Re: Pvr-350 - Do the menus work on tvout

John Van Ostrand john at netdirect.ca
Thu Dec 30 01:21:52 UTC 2004


I'm using the 0.3.2a driver from http://ivtv.no-ip.com.

I had to comment out the lines mentioned in 
http://poptix.net/ivtv/Dec-2004/msg00082.html

I'm using the firmware downloaded from the hauppauge web site (the inf
file for Windows contains this, use ivtv's ivtvfwextract.pl on the
file). A strings shows that the version of ivtv-fw-dec.bin is 2.02.023
and ivtv-fw-enc.bin is 2.05.032.

I also saw a hang when starting X. My system didn't hang but X did and
could not be killed.

The workaround I found is not pretty but I put this in the rc.local file
so it would run at startup:

modprobe ivtv-fb

# Change screen from green
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
# Set video to NTSC
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000
# Set input to the tuner
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4
# Set screen resolution
/usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480
sleep 3
/usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -alpha -on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha
dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k count=100
sleep 3

/usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -globalalpha -nolocalalpha
# Reload firmware, this solves the double screen problem
/usr/bin/ivtvctl --reload
sleep 3

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 19:59 -0500, Don Brett wrote:
> Ok, I tried doing the modprobe after starting X and the menus work.
> When I tried to modprobe ivtv-fb at boot (rc.local), it freezes the
> entire machine when I start X.  How do you load the drivers?  And, by
> the way, which driver and firmware are you using?  Thanks,
> Don
> 
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