[mythtv-users] XFree86 on PVR-350 TV-out

[Simon Alman]

This is something that does confuse me somewhat - why is all the 
documentation telling people to convert perfectly usable PCI details 
into HEX.

To use your Primary Device listed below you can simply add the following 
to the relvant device section in XF86Config:

BusID      "*PCI*:03:00:0"

It works and there is no conversion needed - simply plug in your details 
from lspci. Yes you can convert it to HEX if you really want too (both 
methods work equally well), but personally I think its a lot less 
confusing to do it this way instead.

If someone could explain the logic behind converting to HEX values 
instead then I'd be grateful, I feel I am missing something at the 
moment as it seems more effort than its worth and looking at the number 
of postings it seems to cause confusion reasonably frequently.

Regards

Simon Alman

Matt Hannan wrote:

>This hex conversion that you speak of, why am I the only getting
>00:0b:0?
>Should I enter 0x0:0xb:0x0 or 0x0:0x11:0x0 or 0x1:0x1:0x0? I am hardly
>good with Dec, can fumble thru a CCNA exam with Bin, but PLEASE don't
>ask me to do Hex!!! My sci calc says B=11 in hex2dec mode.
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>>>Looking at the logfile, the primary device doesn't match what I set 
>>>with the BusID line in the config file:
>>>  (II) Primary Device is: PCI 03:00:0
>>>  (**) FBDEV(0): claimed PCI slot 1:6:0
>>>      
>>>
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>>On Oliver Gorwits' suggestion, I changed the BusID line in my
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>XF86Config "Device" entry to:
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>> BusID "0x1:0x6:0x0"
>>Simply adding hex "0x" prefixes to all the numbers.  It works just fine
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>now.
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