I've been building a MythTV box for my brother for a few months now, and I am almost finished. He lives far away from me, and I am concerned that it may play up in my absence. To help the diagnosis of problems at boot, it would be great to have the boot messages/startup sequence displayed on the tv-out of the installed PVR 350.
I am using Gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 and ivtv 0.4.2. Using a kernel configuration utility called genkernel I was able to get a framebuffer set up for boot. Now I would really like to get this displayed on the tv out, hopefully without adversely affecting MythTV's access to the framebuffer device.
Right now, the system uses an initramfs. I tried uncompressing it, and found a directory structure but little in the way of files.
I'd be very grateful if someone could point me towards some documentation on how I might load the ivtv-fb module early enough so that I can use it for the boot sequence, and also how I could get the boot sequence to be displayed without later denying access to MythTV.
Thanks,
Stefan.
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