[mythtv-users] PVR-350, no vid out, and no modprobe results
Aurangzeb M. Agha
ama-list at mltp.com
Tue Apr 18 16:46:27 UTC 2006
Jeff Simpson wrote:
:"video out" is sort of a vague term is all. You can play the MPEG
:files through the hardware mpeg decoder with just the normal ivtv
:driver. To get anything that isn't an mpeg to display you need the X
:driver. Make sense?
That does make sense. thanks for the clarification. I'll have to make
sure everything is working fine before I move on to the X bit.
:If you load mythtv up in your normal X session on a monitor and use
:it, it will display the videos to the TV when they play if you have
:"use PVR-350 MPEG decoder" selected.
:A good first step is to pipe a test mpg to the decoder to see if it
:shows up on the TV, since all that requires is a working ivtv driver.
:Similarly, you can pipe from video0 to record (and test that recording
:works)
This just does not work for me. I downloaded a mpeg and when I do:
cat testfile.mpeg > /dev/video16
I get absolutely nothing.
:Once that is working, you set X up, because you already know the
:wiring works, the card works, and ivtv works, so all that is left is
:the driver and the xorg.conf
What I have working is that I can get the test pattern to show up for me
on my TV's video2 (in) when I use the PVR-350's composite out. I cannot
for the life of me get video to come out of the PVR-350's s-vid out.
See here some samples of relevant portions of some files:
xorg.conf
...
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
HorizSync 30-68
VertRefresh 50-120
Mode "720x480" #Obtained from fbset -fb /dev/fb1 -x
# 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 "ivtvdev"
Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1"
#BusID "2:9:0"
###### !!!! PLEASE READ IF YOUR HAVING PROBLEMS !!!! #######
### Top of file, Load "fbdevhw" may need to be commented out if
TV-Out doesn't work.
### If TV-Out doesn't work, then it's possible that PCI will need
to be inserted-
### like so:
### BusID "PCI:0:10:0" # lspci says 00:0a.0 as hex -- 0a=10
<-decimal
### BusID "PCI:1:14:0" # lspci says 01:0e.0 as hex -- 0e=14
<-decimal
### BusID "PCI:0:5:1" # lspci says 00:05.1 as hex -- 05=5
<-decimal
BusID "PCI:2:9:0" # lspci says 02:09.0
### Change /dev/fb1 to whatever your card grabbed from
/bin/dmesg|grep /dev/fb
### BusID output from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -scanpci as decimal
### (2:9:0) unknown card (0x0070/0x4000) using a Internext
Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder
### Let's not forget to check off "Use the PVR-350's TV out" in
mythfrontend setup under
### TV settings -> Playback
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
Monitor "NTSC Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
DefaultFbbpp 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
FbBpp 32
Modes "720x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 3c59x
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-7676
alias nvidia nvidia-1_0-7676
alias snd-card-0 snd-atiixp
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-atiixp index=0
remove snd-atiixp { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-atiixp
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
install ohci1394 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ohci1394; /sbin/modprobe
raw1394
#IVTV PVR-350 TVOUT
alias char-major-81 videodev
#alias char-major-81-* videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
#alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
#LIRC SETUP
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install
lirc_i2c
Anything else I could post to make this more useful?
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