[mythtv-users] FC6, myth 0.20, Nvidia, PVR 250 & 150 success

[Vince Busam]

First off, thanks to the whole MythTV crew for the great software.  I've
been using Myth since early 2003 and think it is wonderful.  I especially
like the recently added closed captioning since I have a hearing problem and
watch almost all non-news and non-sports shows with captioning.

My server recently crashed, so I did a clean FC6 install.  I used Jarod's
guide for the Myth install.  Everything now appears to be working fine.

I did have a problem getting the PVR 150 to work.  It is a type 50 device,
so I added an "options ivtv tuner=-1,50" line to my /etc/modprobe.conf file.
Even then I was getting a distorted picture on the 150 and even got a
backend message "MPEGRec(/dev/video1) Error: select timeout - ivtv driver
has stopped responding".  Roland Roberts in the thread "IVTV 0.8.1 and PVR
500 with new Samsung tuners" supplied the answer by pointing to this link:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/33034.
It turns out ivtv has a problem and that I need to set the recording profile
(in mythfrontend) to a screen resolution of 720x480 (NTSC) because I want
VBI data.

For my Nvidia card, I also ended up with the following in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load  "v4l"
EndSection

(Jarod's guide links to his xorg.conf files that have a different ModulePath
directory than I got with my clean FC6 install.  Perhaps he just upgraded to
FC6 and is using the old directory name.)

I also changed an IR remote key to send a "T" to turn captioning on and off
(~mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc).