as a slight aside, when i run X on my 350, i've found it not fast
enuff to run pre-archived xvids on my 2.6 celly in a pundit-r.


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:23:34 -0600, Joseph Burdick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Like many, I am following Jarod Wilson's Howto for a mythtv using FC3
> and the PVR350.  I've been at it since Christmas and am stretching my
> linux skills a good bit.  I've worked through a few problems along the
> way, but have hit one now that I can't find resolution for in the
> archives.  You've probably heard it before, but my trouble seems a
> little different than others.
> I modprobe ivtv and can successfully send the test image and dd to the
> TV screen.  But yes, you guessed it, I can't get X to load on the TV.
> I've read from the archives of this list and the users list but
> decided to post here since it was recommended on Jarod's page.
> What seems different is that I don't even get a hint on X, my TV
> screen never changes after a Ctl-Alt-Backspace.  My monitor (using
> onboard video) goes from KDE to a black screen, and then blue with the
> following X error:
> 
> (--) Log file: "//var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat************
> (--) Using config file: "/ect/X11/xorg.conf"
> (EE) Failed to load module "ivtvdev: (module does not exist, 0)
> (EE) No drivers available.
> 
> Fatal Server Error:
> no screens found
> 
> I have been through Jarod's "10. Get and install capture card driver"
> several times thinking that maybe an update to ivtv 0.2.0 would take
> care of me, but no luck.
> I presume that Jarod's statement under Running X on the PVR-350's
> TV-Out    -   "Note that the ivtvdev X driver is included with the
> ck-series ivtv drivers, so no need to fetch it, just use it." somehow
> isn't working for me.
> I have seen discussion about manually moving a driver file, but wanted
> to stick to the Atrpms if possible.
> Thanks to anyone who would like to help out a guys who is close to
> being over his head (but doesn't want to be).
> 
> I'll include every output that I think could be useful:
> 
> /sbin/lspci -v
> 00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15
> MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>        Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> 
> ll /dev/video?
> crw-rw----  1 root root 81, 0 Jan 29 13:58 /dev/video0
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# /bin/dmesg |grep Initialized
> ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'     ###courious...I
> don't have firewire?
> ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mythtv]# cat /var/log/messages |grep "iTVC15 TV out"
> Jan 25 19:05:15 mythtv kernel: ivtv-osd: fb1: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer 
> device
> Jan 29 11:27:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv-osd: fb1: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer 
> device
> Jan 29 12:59:26 mythtv kernel: ivtv-osd: fb1: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer 
> device
> Jan 29 13:58:35 mythtv kernel: ivtv-osd: fb1: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer 
> device
> ### I seem to be getting another one of these on each reboot, guess that's 
> okay
> 
> My xorg.conf is the one off Jarod's page with the following required edits:
> Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
>        Driver      "ivtvdev"
>        #Driver      "fbdev"
> 
>        ### change fb0 to whatever your card grabbed
>        Option      "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
> 
>        ### change the BusID to whatever is reported by lspci, specify it as 
> hex
> .
>        BusID "0:0x0f:0"
> 
> I would include my Xorg.0.log, but it pushed the email over the 20KB
> limit, so let me know if you would like to have it in a separate post.
> (you might
> understand why, but I cannot find "ivtvdev" (the error output to the
> terminal) anywhere in the log.  I thought it was a more
> complete version of what was dumped to the screen after an X failure?
> 
> Thanks for your help-
> Joseph
> 
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