anyhow, I have a few guides I wrote up on my website which you could
look at for reference, mostly cause I'm using 0.4.6 right now, and use
Slackware distribution
http://www.schaefer.dhcp.biz/
----- Original Message -----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:30 pm
Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] ivtv_fb on pvr-350
To: User discussion about IVTV <[email protected]>
> I would assume the latest, but version of IvyTV release are you
using?
> Have you compiled into X the support for the ivtv framebuffer?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jared Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, November 10, 2006 5:23 pm
> Subject: [ivtv-users] ivtv_fb on pvr-350
> To: [email protected]
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a PVR-350. I've got IVTV installed and can see tv output
> > on my tv, which
> > is great! Now, I'm trying to get the x driver working with a
> PVR-
> > 350 card so
> > that I can play video files on the tv, too. I'm following the
> > instructions
> > here: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:XDriver
> >
> > I think I am having trouble with ivtv_fb. When I try to run
> "cat
> > /proc/fb" to
> > find out which framebuffer device to use, I get no output at all
> > unless if I
> > first run "modprobe ivtv_fb". Afterwards, I get "0 cx23415 TV
> > out", which looks
> > good and makes me think I want to use /dev/fb0.
> >
> > But I have some issues when I try to run "modprobe ivtv_fb".
> >
> > If I do this from an xterm, it works, but when I switch to
> another
> > virtual
> > terminal (i.e., with Ctrl+Alt+F1), it give me a blank screen. I
> > can switch back
> > to X-windows, using Alt+F7, so it seems like the computer is
> still
> > responsive,
> > I'm just not being shown the console or something. (I checked,
> > and nothing is
> > being output to the TV, either.)
> >
> > Worse, when I try to run "modprobe ivtv_fb" without x-windows
> > loaded, from a
> > regular console, I get "stair-steppy text" on the console and
> the
> > console
> > becomes unresponsive.
> >
> > The text looks something like this: (not a screenshot, i just
> > wrote it down)
> >
> > usbcore 134912 4 usbhind,echi_hcd,uhci_hcd
> > ide_generic 2432 0
> > sc_mod 22656 4
> > ata_piix 11780 6
> > libata 74892 1 ata_piix
> >
> > And this goes on: "scsi_mod, ide_disk, ide_cd, cdrom, piix,
> > generic, thermal,
> > processor, fan, fbcon, tileblit, font, bitblit, softcursor,
> > vesafb,
> > compatibility commoncap, ...", each with more numbers.
> >
> > At this point, I can reboot the system by typing
> Ctrl+Alt+Delete,
> > but can't
> > really do anything else. So, I don't think the system has
> > crashed, it's just
> > again not letting me interact with the console for some reason.
> > (I also looked
> > at the TV, and no console appears there.)
> >
> >
> > Anyway, I am pretty sure that I need to fix this before I can
> run
> > X-windows with
> > the X driver. When I try to just use "X -screen TV" without the
> > ivtv_fb module
> > installed, I get error messages. Here is a section of my
> Xorg.0.log:>
> > (II) LoadModule: "ivtvdev"
> > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
> > (II) Module ivtv: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> > compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.10.6
> > ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
> > ...
> > (II) IVTVDEV_TST: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350
> > (II) Primary Device is: PCI 03:02:0
> > (WW) ivtvdev: No matching Device section for instance (BusID
> > PCI:3:3:0) found
> > (--) Chipset PVR-350 found
> > (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
> > (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
> > (II) UnloadModule: "ivtvdev"
> > (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> >
> >
> > The relevant (I think) parts of my xorg.conf are:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "TV Card"
> > Driver "ivtvdev"
> > BusID "PCI:3:3:0"
> > Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb0"
> > Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
> > Option "XVideo" "1"
> > Screen 1
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
> > HorizSync 30-68
> > VertRefresh 50-120
> > DisplaySize 183 122
> > Mode "720x480"
> > DotClock 34.564
> > HTimings 720 752 840 928
> > VTimings 480 484 488 504
> > Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
> > EndMode
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "TV"
> > Device "TV Card"
> > Monitor "NTSC Monitor"
> > DefaultDepth 24
> > DefaultFbbpp 32
> > Subsection "Display"
> > Depth 24
> > FbBpp 32
> > Modes "720x480"
> > EndSubsection
> > EndSection
> >
> > And lspci | grep video says:
> >
> > 03:03.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc
> > iTVC15 MPEG-2
> > Encoder (rev 01)
> >
> >
> > Thanks so much!
> >
> > Jared
> >
> > --
> > Jared Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jared/
> > 3600 Greystone Drive #604 - Austin, TX 78731
> > (512) 879-3858
> >
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