[ivtv-devel] Newbie's Plea for Help with PVR 350 TV Out and X

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:20:09 -0800 

Hi, Banging my head against a solid brick wall,  wall is winning.
Sorry for long posting, but I thought I get all the info out at this time

I'm a complete newbie at linux and mythtv, but willing to learn.

Following Jarod Wilson's Guide, get to the part where we attempt to put KDE on the TV Monitor.
I restart X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), and the machine goes somewhere (not sure where). Monitor is Black and TV is black.
Have to restart the the System (Ctrl-Alt-Del), (none of the VC's seem to be available Ctrl-Alt -Fn?? )
System comes back, have to change the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file back.

Restart ivtv and ivtv-fb and on the TV is the Fedora Core login Screen.

I can record from the monitor
I can playback to the monitor
I can view TV using dd......

Searched the web mythtv-users achieve, no joy so far.

I think that somewhere along the line I'm not grabbing the correct framebuffer or I'm crashing the Xserver

- I've tried John Harvey's patched ivtvdev_drv.o file


Normal Process to get system to work as follows

# /sbin/depmod -a
# /sbin/modprobe ivtv
# /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb                        -> here I see the Logon Screen

Grep dmesg

        ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0

Grep /var/log/messages

Mar 6 14:24:59 localhost kernel: ivtv-osd: fb0: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device 

lspci   - :Card is at 01:09.0

# /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -p 4 -f width=720,height=480 -y mute=0
- mute=0 is to ensure that sound is available (Seems the card mutes itself)

# /usr/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -alpha -on -globalalpha -nolocalalpha
- Screen is clear with dd....

- restart X --> Issues

System info

        Dell L800r (i810) chip (Option "NoAccel" to get it to work)
        PIII 800/320MB :
        PVR-350 (Model 990)
        KVM for keyboard and mouse only -> I've tried it without the KVM same 
issues
                - Other Box is ????P
                - Separate monitors

apt-get all the latest ivtv, dist, mythtv

Fedora Core 3:
        2.6.10-1.766_FC3

Grub.conf has been modified to try to force the fb
        Removed         rhgb    
        Added           vga=791

ivtv - version 0.2.0 (rc3g)

/etc/X11/xorg.conf              # For PVR 350 Setup

# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config
# Modified for jmg
#
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Default Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "NTSC Monitor"
        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

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        Driver      "ivtvdev"
        Option      "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
        Option      "ivtv" "/dev/fb0"
        BusID "PCI:1:9:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier  "Screen0"
        Device      "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        Monitor     "NTSC Monitor"
        DefaultDepth 24
        DefaultFbbpp 32
        Subsection "Display"
          Depth 24
          FbBpp 32
          Modes "720x480"
        EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

/etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 sundance

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
options snd-card-0 index=0
install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv

alais usb-controller ehci-hcd
alais usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alais usb-controller2 uhci-hcd
alais ieee1394-controller ohci1394

Hopefully, someone will hear my plea. And Thanx in advance

Mike G. (Wall continues to win) 



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