[mythtv-users] no more X on the PVR-350's TV-Out after upgrade to FC6

[Claude Gélinas agr.]

Le vendredi 23 février 2007 à 02:51 +0000, Nick Morrott a écrit :
> On 23/02/07, Claude Gélinas agr. <claude at phyto.qc.ca> wrote:
> > I just upgraded a fc4 mythtv perfectly running, high WAF system to fc6
> >
> > Now I'm no longer able to start X on my PVR 350 TV-out.
> >
> > My system have one PVR 350 and one PVR 500mce
> > It's FC6 x86_64. I've upgraded via CD and updated the system via yum
> > after. this is a complete system with backend and frontend on the same
> > machine.
> > kernel is 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
> > Mythtv is the latest on artrpms 0.20-152
> > ivtv is 0.10.0-125
> > ivtv-firmware 1.8a-13
> > ivtv-kmdl 2.6.19-1.2911
> > ivtv-xdriver 0.10.7-8_r3843
> >
> > backend is running,
> > I can view the TV by starting mythfrontend on an ssh -X connection via
> > another machine. I get perfect sound and image. Only problem,I need to
> > be root to start it... probably a permission problem to adjust.
> >
> > dmesg say that both three decoder are detected:
> >
> > Feb 18 18:21:46 video kernel: ivtv:  ==================== START INIT
> > IVTV ====================
> > Feb 18 18:21:46 video kernel: ivtv:  version 0.7.1 (tagged release)
> > loading
> > Feb 18 18:21:46 video kernel: ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4
> 
> I'm thinking this is the old output from FC4. Are all cards detected
> similarly in FC6?
> 
Oops, the cards are detected the same in FC6. But before my PVR 350 was
on fb0 and now it's on FB1. so I changed my xorgs.conf to FB1 and I get
X on TV great

The only problem is the X output looks too big to fit the screen so I
need to RTFM a little bit

Thanks.
> 
> Do you have a Driver "ivtvdev" entry and linked device/screen/server
> entries for the PVR-350 in your new xorg.conf?
> 
> Check out http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#Fedora_6_and_pvr-350_tv_out_.28kernel_2.6.19.29
> and http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:xdriver (older info) for
> more information.
> 
> Nick
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