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 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
