[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-out Problem

[zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx]

looks like you missed to modprobe ivtv-fb.

have a look at dmesg to find out if it isn't loaded.
---z

On Friday 05 November 2004 16:14, Michael Starks wrote:
> I'm having problems getting the PVR-350 TV-out working on Fedora Core 2,
> while following Jarod's guide.  When the system boots, X tried to start
> on the TV and after 3 attempts, fails (the xorg.conf is from Jarod's
> site).  OK, so I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and here's what I find:
> ------
> (II) LoadModule: "ivtvdev"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
> (II) Module fbdev: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.1.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
> (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
> (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
>         Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
>         ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
> (II) IVTVDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
> (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0b:0
> (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
> (EE) No devices detected.
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> ------
> However, when I:
>
> depmod -a
> modprobe ivtv
>
> The driver appears to load properly as reported by lsmod.  Here's the
> strange thing--I get a screen full of gibberish on the attached monitor.
> It's just random characters, and I don't recall that ever happening when
> I had this working under Red Hat 9.0.
>
> lspci -v sees the cards properly and reveals 00:09.0 as the Bus ID.  I
> have translated this to, well, BusID "0:0x09:0" in xorg.conf.
>
> Some more info:
> ------
>  ll /dev/video? reveals:
>
> crw-------  1 root root 81, 0 Oct 17 11:37 /dev/video0
> crw-------  1 root root 81, 0 Oct 17 11:37 /dev/video1
> crw-------  1 root root 81, 0 Oct 17 11:37 /dev/video2
> crw-------  1 root root 81, 0 Oct 17 11:37 /dev/video3
> ------
>
> What's interesting about this is that I had done a chown to mythtv
> before but it seems to have reverted back to root ownership.
>
> All help appreciated.