Hi, Over break I decided to rebuild my myth system to use LVM. The previous system was gentoo based, 2.4 kernel, and used the ivtv-0.1.9 from about april or so. Everything worked really well, including using the video out from the PVR350 via Xwindows (Xfree 4.3). As a result, I'm pretty confident of my hardware, since this ran for months
I've rebaselined my box, using gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.9-r9, and Xorg 6.8.0-r3, and udev. I am using the ivtv-0.2.0-rc3c downloaded from Chris Kennedy's site (not using the ebuild in gentoo portage). Everything works really well, ie I can capture video and play it back with mplayer, I can get the test image using saa7127 test_image=1 on the tvout (composite and svideo out) and I get great tvout if I load the ivtv_fb while in KDE 3.3.1like so (from the ivtv.sourceforge.net wiki pages): /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -u 0x3000 -p 4 ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -noglobalalpha -localalpha ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -globalalpha -nolocalalpha -alpha 0 dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k This will show great video and soundout of whatever channel is default (I have not tried changing the channel). I have let this run for 30 minutes or so with no issues. The issue that I am having is when I try to start using the pvr video out with Xwindows. The end result is that I get a black screen, with a large X mouse cursor in the center of the screen. No input from the keyboard or the mouse are accepted. I can ssh into it from another box. Killing X does no good when I try to get back to the console (either ctrl-alt-backspace or remote kill -9 any X looking process). Here is what I've done, and what data I've dug up. When I type startx with the ServerLayout for the ivtv stuff commented, everything works fine, I get the nice musical kde startup, picture on the montior. If I comment out the videocard/monitor and related stuff, I get a black screen, with the Xwindows mouse cursor (not kde mousecursor). ie a big X in the middle of the tvscreen that can't be moved. no kde startup music either. 1. I've installed the X11 driver per the directions in the ivtvdev_drv_o (and I found the site at http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ and have downloaded the latest binary driver with the same results). 2. Relevant xorg.conf stuff (note: I've commented out any reference to my other video card to rule out conflicts with the video (I've tried a radeon 8500 and an old matrox MGA card)): Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "ivtv tv" Screen 0 "IVTV TVOut" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "TV" HorizSync 30-68 VertRefresh 50-120 Mode "720x480" # D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz DotClock 34.564 HTimings 720 752 840 928 VTimings 480 484 488 504 Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" EndMode EndSection ection "Device" Identifier "ivtv" # Driver "fbdev" Driver "ivtvdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb/1" #note I have tried /dev/fb1 which udev creates as a symlink to /dev/fb/1 # Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1" ### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that ### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID # Xorg -scanpci returned this number (which is decimal) BusID "PCI:0:8:0" Section "Screen" Identifier "IVTV TVOut" Device "ivtv" Monitor "TV" DefaultDepth 24 DefaultFbBpp 32 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 FbBpp 32 Modes "720x480" EndSubsection EndSection 2. My Xorg.log has no really interesting stuff, other than the only error in the log: (EE) IVTVDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument I've seen on a previous post that this isn't a relavant error. I've posted my entire Xorg.0.log at http://watsonweb.dnsalias.org/ivtv/Xorg.0.log-LOCKEDUPIVTV There is nothing remotely intersting in any of my syslogs (I use metalog). If it would help, I've posted them here: (from /var/log/everything) http://watsonweb.dnsalias.org/ivtv/everything_log (from /var/log/kernel) http://watsonweb.dnsalias.org/ivtv/kernel_log An interesting thing to note is that if I leave the computer running, the picture starts getting white dots on it, at apparently random places. It starts off black with the X mouse cursor, but degrades. I do want to thank in advance anyone who takes the time to read this, and to the developer a big thankyou, both from myself and my family who enjoy the fruits of your efforts. L8R... Randy ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
