[mythtv-users] New to MythTV, help please...

[Stephen Longhurst]

Hi Josh,

> The only real difference between my configuration and the one
> specified in Jarod's guide is that my PCI bus ID is 0:0b.0.  The
> problems start to occur when I tried his XFConfig to make my
> PVR-350 display X.  I took his config and made the appropriate
> change to my PCI bus address and checking to make sure my
> framebuffer device was the same as his (it is)  my TV didn't display
> anything after restarting X.

One thing that came to my mind when I was reading this was something I
discovered when I first tried got X to display on the PVR-350 output.  I
set things up and start X and all I get is a black screen on the TV
and my normal desktop on the monitor.  However, if I move the mouse
over to and off of the monitors edge, onto the TV display, I get the X
cursor on the TV.  I use XFCE4 as a window manager and there's
probably a way to tell it to manage the second display, however you
don't really need to.  By starting mythfrontend as
>DISPLAY=:0.1 mythfrontend
I get mythtv on the TV.  You'll probably need to play around with the
UI size and offsets to get it to look good.  You also need to specify
the PVR-350 output under the TV settings.

Also, it might be worth trying Matthias Badaire's alternate X display
driver for the ivtv framebuffer at http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/

Lastly, I've just found this very interesting thread on some random
forum that Google gave me that might be of help : http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=804

Cheers,

       Steve

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Stephen Longhurst
steve at longsteve.com