[mythtv-users] X and PVR 350

[Will Otte]

Hi Chris -

I recently had a problem similar to yours. See below for my comments.

Chris Martin wrote:
> I've finally managed to pass some video through my PVR 350' s TV out* so the
> next step is to try and get X running.  For some reason IVTV is not being
> run while the system boots, so I'm currently doing:
> # /sbin/depmod -a
> # /sbin/modprobe ivtv
> 

Look in Jarod's guide where it talks about building the initrd.  This 
will allow the TV out to work during boot up.

> Then editing my xorg.conf file to give me the appropriate settings and
> pressing ctr-alt-backspace to restart X.  Unfortunately, and somewhat
> predictably,  the X Server refuses to restart.
> 
> Some information.
> I'm using FC3 Following Jarod's guide
> I'm in the UK so I'm trying to get the thing to display on a PAL TV
> 
> cat /var/log/messages |grep "iTVC15 TV out" returns:
> Jan 26 16:22:14 localhost kernel: ivtv-osd: fb1: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer
> device
> 
> /sbin/lspci -v  returns:
> 02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2
> Encoder (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> MY IVTV Init suggests I'm using  ivtv: version 0.3.2 (c), which isn't the
> one that Jarod says I should be using, although I did install it from the
> at-testing rpms.  If part of the problem is that I should be using ivtv
> 0.2.0rc3c then I need to know how to 'downgrade'.
> 
> I've also attached my modprobe.conf and xorg.conf files as it's probably in
> one of those that the problem lies.

I would suggest that you grab the latest release version of IVTV from here:

http://205.209.168.201/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3e.tgz

compile, and install it.  This release contains a patch that solves a 
problem some folks (myself included) have been having with FC3/ PVR 350 
TV out.

Keep in mind that you will have to make sure to uninstall the kernel 
modules installed by apt.

hth,
/-Will