[mythtv-users] Re: So Close - TV-out on pvr350

[Matt Salerno]

On 5/24/05, Jason Healy <jhealy+mythtv at logn.net> wrote:
> At 1116905147s since epoch (05/23/05 22:25:47 -0400 UTC), Matt Salerno wrote:
> > Ok, I got home, first I made sure I could still get the TV out on the
> > PVR with X running through my video card, and it worked as expected.
> > Then I tried changing the line in my xorg.conf to read:
> >
> > Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
> > Rather than:
> > Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb0"
> 
> I assume you have a correct "BusID" param in that stanza as well?
> 
> > startx, no luck.
> 
> Looking at your earlier post, I'm going to assume that "no luck" means
> that X is starting, but doesn't display anything on the TV.  The logs
> don't seem to indicate that X is crashing (I'm assuming that signal 11
> is from you killing the server).
> 
> You may have a problem with the linux console being tied up by your
> primary video card.  It happened to me: my built-in video card got
> /dev/fb0, and the linux console settled on that.  X didn't want to
> start to a different console, so nothing showed up on the TV, even
> though X started and didn't post any errors.
> 
> If this is the case, you can try moving the default console to an
> "unused" virtual term.  Add this to your /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
> append="video=vc:64-64"
> 
> (if there's already an append line, add it to the existing values)
> 
> Then re-run lilo and reboot.
> 
> If you'd like, I can send you my entire X config, which uses a TV-350
> and ignores the built-in VGA video card.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Jason
> 
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> 
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I would love to see a working xorg.conf example.  Another thing I need
to do is translate your lilo statement into a grub statement.

Thanks.