[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

Stephen Tait tait at digitallaw.co.uk
Fri Jun 25 13:59:38 EDT 2004


At 10:30 25/06/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>On Friday 25 June 2004 02:15, Stephen Tait wrote:
> > The ivtv people have a (very small) patch for XFree they suggest you use if
> > you're using the 350 FB. There are lots of people who don't have problems,
> > but some 350 users get random X lockups; that's what the patched version is
> > meant to fix.
>
>The only patch I'm aware of is for the ivtv driver (Matthias' fix-prepdma
>patch), and then his ivtvdev X driver. No actual patching of XFree86. That's
>the combination I'm using for 350 output on my EPIA, and it works great,
>haven't had a single lockup with that setup.

Aha, sorry had the thin end of the wedge as AINAPVR350U. From the docs I'd 
skimread it sounded like a one-line patch to X that stoped Bad Things from 
happening.



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