On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:57 -0500, Ricardo Lugo wrote:
> Henry,
> 
> I'm currently using ivtv-0.10.0 on PPC and it works very well!
> 
> 0.10.0 is the first version of ivtv to fully support PPC (DMA, fb,  
> and all).
> 
> The xdriver binary on the wiki was compiled for Xorg 6.9, and I  
> believe FC6 has the modular Xorg so you'll need to recompile the  
> xdriver. Unfortunately the new xdriver sources that John Harvey  
> released does not have the Big-Endian patches necessary for a normal  
> color scheme, so maybe I can go through the big-endian patches and  
> fix up the new xdriver. But the only last problem with that is  
> MythTV's PVR-350 output - myth writes directly to the framebuffer so  
> the colors are messed up and its a bit quirky. But you can use MythTV  
> on the TV-out with the right version of the xdriver and XV and it  
> will work perfectly.
> 
> Your driver problems could be due to a few things:
>       1) Is the cx2341x module getting loaded (lsmod to check)
>       2) Is /dev/fb1 actually your PVR-350? ls /dev/fb/ and check what  
> you've got.
> 

Hmm, lsmod shows the cx2341x module, and cat /proc/fb shows 
# cat /proc/fb
0 ATY Rage128
1 cx23415 TV out

> Personally, I like Slackintosh as my linux distribution of choice for  
> PPC. Just my two cents :-D.
> 
> - Rick


Thanks for the help.  What kernel are yourunning right now (and what
kind of PPC do you have)?  I'm trying to get this to run on an old
G3/PPC750 Mac Desktop, but could put it on a G4 machine if need be.

Henry


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