[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV out problem

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Sun Mar 13 21:35:11 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 15:58, John Harvey wrote:
> It looks like you have loaded the framebuffer driver
> as well which is overlaying the video. You can turn it
> off temporarily with
> 
> ivtvctl -nolocalalpha -globalalpha -alpha 0 
> which makes the framebuffer vanish.
> If you want to run X on it then you need to set the
> alpha back to 255 so that X is displayed.

Thanks for the quick response!

Ok, that sounds like the problem.  However when I try to run the command
listed above I get a usage error "Invalid suboptions specified".

Plus I never did see the test pattern that it appears I should have
seen.

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Scot L. Harris
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