[mythtv-users] how to get X and mythfrontend to use 350 TV Out(almost working)

malcolm-mythtv mythtv at lds.dyndns.org
Sat Jan 31 21:12:16 EST 2004


On Saturday 31 January 2004 06:50 pm, Marc Mosthav wrote:
> Silly question, but are you loading ivtv-fb?
>
> Marc

Yes I sure am.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "malcolm-mythtv" <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>
> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 12:02 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] how to get X and mythfrontend to use 350 TV
> Out(almost working)
>
> > I've spent the whole day trying to figure out how to get my 350's TV out
> > working.
> >
> > I got to the point where this command works
> >
> > dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
> >
> > I get a picture and sound just fine on my TV.
> >
> > What I haven't been able to figure out is how in the world do I make X
> > and mythfrontend use the TV out instead of my monitor?
> >
> > I've attached a copy of my /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file since I think
> > that's where all the magic happens.
> >
> > I've also attached the output of
> > lspci -v
> > since I think that affects the "busid" line in XF86config-4 (I'm not sure
>
> I
>
> > can figure it out).
> >
> > fb1 is also confirmed to be my frame buffer device for the 350 by doing
>
> "grep
>
> > fb1 /var/log/messages" and finding references to it at boot.
> >
> > Ohh and I don't see any errors related to this problem in
>
> /var/log/messages,
>
> > /var/log/dmesg, or /var/log/XFree86.0.log but I'll gladly send those to
> > if someone needs to see.
> >
> > I'd really appreciate any pointers or links etc.
> > BTW are there any official docs on getting the PVR-350 tv out to work?
> >
> > Oh yeah system specs would probably help
> > 2.4 Celeron / 512 DDR
> > Mandrake 9.2
> > kernel.org kernel compiled with v4l2 patch
> > mythtv 0.13 (I see 0.14 has just been released - woo hoo) (compiled from
> > source)
> > ivtv 0.1.9
> >
> > Thanks guys
> > Malcolm
>
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