[mythtv-users] pvr-350 and X TV-Out??

[stan]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:38:20PM -0800, Dan wrote:
> hmm, based on the var/log/messages...
> 
> Mar 13 18:01:32 mythbox kernel: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device
> Mar 13 18:22:34 mythbox kernel: ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
> Mar 13 18:22:34 mythbox kernel: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device
> 
> its fb0
> 
> I have gotten to the point where I can kind of get X up on the TV...but the screen is all messed up...
> I cannot actually see the login textbox when I log in...just the fedora background (part of it).once I do log in..the windows are 'duplicated' horizontally over the screen.
> 
> I suspect I have a v-sync/h-sync issue...anyone else have this with the XF86Config based off of Jarods??
> 

Are you NTSC or PAL?

You do ahve a AGP graphics card in the box, right? Is it in framebuffer
mode? Have you gottten X workign on it?

Here's mu X config for reference.


Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen  0 "TV Screen"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
	Option "DontVTSwitch"  "true"
	Option "DontZap"  "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
#	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
#	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
#	Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "v4l"
	Load  "extmod"
#	Load  "glx"
        Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
	Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
	Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Serial Mouse"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option      "Protocol" "Microsoft"
	Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
	Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
	Option	    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option      "Protocol" "auto"
Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
	Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
	Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
	Option	    "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
        Option          "Protocol"              "IMPS/2"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "Buttons"               "5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "NTSC Monitor"
        HorizSync  30-68
        VertRefresh 50-120
        Mode "720x480"
          # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
          DotClock 34.564
          HTimings 720 752 840 928
          VTimings 480 484 488 504
          Flags    "-HSync" "-VSync"
        EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        # Driver      "fbdev"
        Driver      "ivtvdev"

        ### change fb1 to whatever number you got in the previous section
        Option      "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"

        ### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that 
        ### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID
        # BusID "0:0x08:0"
        BusID "0:0x0a.0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier  "TV Screen"
        Device      "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        Monitor     "NTSC Monitor"
        DefaultDepth 24
        DefaultFbbpp 32
        Subsection "Display"
          Depth 24
          FbBpp 32
          Modes "720x480"
        EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode 0666
EndSection

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