[mythtv-users] Which Distribution?

mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk
Thu Jan 13 20:01:58 EST 2005


Mike wrote:
> Any advice for getting PVR-350 tv-out working?  I fought with 
> FC3 for a few weeks and am in the process of installing SuSE 
> 9.2 and will try there.  I'd gotten bits and pieces working 
> in Fedora , but never the whole thing (ivtv, lirc...) in the 
> same install...  So, any hints, howtos, suggestions would be 
> appreciated.  I was going to install from rpm using apt as 
> described http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/mythtv.html,
> but if you can suggest specific versions of ivtv, that you 
> know work, I might be tempted to start from scratch.  Thanks 
> for any insight,

I'm using ivtv-0.3.2a with an X driver from
http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/

I had to install a few things from source, namely
lirc-0.7.0,libcdaudio-0.99.12, xmltv-0.5.37

I had a few minor grumbles with lirc but nothing major, for most of the
install I vaguely followed
Jarods guide.

HTH

Druid

My XF86Config file for displaying  purely to the 350's tv out is:

(you *WILL* have to edit this, if only for the bus ID's)

# /.../
# SaX generated XFree86 config file
# Created on: 2005-01-05T00:46:12+0000.
#
# Version: 4.8
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax at suse.de>, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (4.8)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "Files"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS0"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS1"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS2"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS3"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS4"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS5"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS6"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS7"
  InputDevices "/dev/ttyS8"
  InputDevices "/dev/psaux"
  InputDevices "/dev/logibm"
  InputDevices "/dev/sunmouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/atibm"
  InputDevices "/dev/amigamouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/atarimouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/inportbm"
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
  InputDevices "/dev/mouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/usbmouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/adbmouse"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/event0"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer0"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer1"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer2"
  InputDevices "/dev/pointer3"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "Module"
  Load         "v4l"
  Load         "extmod"
  Load         "type1"
  Load         "freetype"
  Load         "dbe"
  Load         "speedo"
  Load         "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd"
  Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "gb"
  Option       "XkbModel" "pc105"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "ButtonNumber" "5"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/mouse"
  Option       "Name" "Autodetection"
  Option       "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  380 300
  HorizSync    15-82
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "Unknown"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "Unknown"
  VertRefresh  30-77
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  HorizSync    30-68
  Identifier   "PAL"
  VertRefresh  50-120
  UseModes     "Modes[1]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline      "1280x1024" 138.54 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028
1069
  Modeline      "1152x864" 104.99 1152 1224 1352 1552 864 865 868 902
  Modeline      "1024x768" 81.80 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 802
  Modeline      "800x600" 48.91 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 627
  Modeline      "640x480" 30.72 640 664 728 816 480 481 484 502
EndSection

Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[1]"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    FbBpp      32
    Modes      "720x576"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Hauppauge"
  Identifier   "TV"
  Monitor      "PAL"
EndSection


Section "Device"
  BoardName    "GeForce4 MX440SE"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "nv"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Screen       1
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
  BusID        "0:12:0"
  Driver       "ivtvdev"
  Identifier   "Hauppauge"
  Option        "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
  Screen       0
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "off"
  Screen       "TV"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection



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