[mythtv-users] RE: Problems starting X with PVR 350

James Satterfield jsatter at uberduper.com
Sun Aug 29 13:57:56 EDT 2004


Martin Ravell <martin.ravell at rave-tech.com.au> wrote: 
>James Satterfield wrote :
>
>>Martin Ravell <martin.ravell at rave-tech.com.au> wrote: 
>>>
>>>Daniel Savard wrote :
>>>
>><snip>
>The relevant part of my lspci is :
>
>01:00.0 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 32, IRQ 10
>        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
>
>I took this to mean that the Device section in my XF86Config should look
>like this as a result :
>
>
>Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR350"
>        Driver      "ivtvdev"
>        Option      "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
>        BusID "1:00:0"
>EndSection
>

Use BusID "1:0.0"

>
>Errors in /var/log/messages are :
>
>
>
>Aug 20 22:28:46 porky modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0 
>Aug 20 22:28:47 porky gdm[5064]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
>-
>Restarting :0 
>Aug 20 22:28:47 porky modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0 
>Aug 20 22:28:48 porky gdm[5078]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
>-
>Restarting :0 
>Aug 20 22:28:51 porky modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0 
>Aug 20 22:28:53 porky gdm[5083]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
>-
>Restarting :0 
>Aug 20 22:28:56 porky modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0 
>Aug 20 22:28:57 porky gdm[5103]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error
>-
>Restarting :0 
>Aug 20 22:28:57 porky gdm[5004]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the
>XKeepsCrashing script
>
>
>I put my config and log files into http://www.rave-tech.com.au/mythtv/ in
>case that will help.
>

Does /dev/fb0 exist? What's "fbset -fb /dev/fb0" say?
Everything looks okay in your dmesg output after loading the ivtv drivers.

James.





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