Sounds like you want something like multihead support, with one of the heads being your pvr. This depends on your being able to make the pvr look like a video adaptor to the kernel, then getting it to initialize as the first display the kernel knows about. Then all messages will be sent there. Once the bootup is complete, the xserver can use the secondary display (your real video adaptor) for X and such. Anyway, check into multihead support. I think your answer will be there.
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 20:02 +0000, Stefan Haflidason wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
