On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:41 pm, Steve & Laurie Sanders wrote: I have had great luck with source RPM's. Once you start using them, you won't go back from building from tarballs.
I already have the kernel source. I will have to get the X11 source from somewhere. The KDE overscan your talking about - I would mess around with the xorg config and see if that will help you. Do you have a widescreen or something, is that why it isn't scaling?? > Joel, > > The 350 does work beautifully with Mythtv for me. It was a long and painful > path to get there for me. I am running on Fedora core 3 so I can not help > you specificly with SuSe but I can tell you that I never had any luck using > rpms or prebuilt binaries myself even though a whole bunch of people seem > to use them with Jarods guide with good sucess if you beleive what you > read. > > In my case I eventually ended up building almost every package from source > code. You really need the kernel sources AND the X11 sources if you expect > to build mythtv, ivtv, and xdriver. The message you refer to about X Source > is definatly refering to the X11 source. > > I would STRONGLY recomend you CAREFULLY read the documentation included > with the source for each package on how to build each of the packages. > > It can be done and the result is nothing short of spectacular when it all > comes together. The PVR350 has excellent picture quality. The only thing I > have never resolved is finding a way to adjust the overscan so that the > regular desktop would fit on the screen. Myth scales fine but the KDE > desktop does not and there is nothing myth can do about this. > > Good luck and don't give up. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel Webb > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ivtv-users] Hauppage 350 and the X driver > > > > Has anybody installed this and got it working correctly?? > > I downloaded it off the website, tried to install the binary in addition to > compiling, and it is complaining about the location of the X SOURCE. > > Is this the source of compiling X11 from source?? > > Or the source of the kernel?? > > Isn't there a src RPM I can download somewhere?? I am using SuSE 10. > > -- > Thanks Again, > > Joel Webb > WebbGroup Property Management > webbgroup.com > 336-841-7241 > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users -- Thanks Again, Joel Webb President and CEO PropBot.com L.L.C. Home of: PropBot.com TheCreativeInvestor.com AllYouCanRent.com SellAnyHouseQuick.com 703-778-5755 x101 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
