Hi again Rick, 

Thanks for the info. 

There seems to be a bug in ivtvfbctl.c. When I compile it (even from svn 
trunk), I get the warning: 

ivtvfbctl.c: In function ‘main’:
ivtvfbctl.c:238: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of 
data type 

looking at the code shows that the variable 'ch' in main should be an int 
rather than a char. 

(otherwise it would never get out of the getopts loop) 

Now that I can set the alpha, I can test my tv out (I hope)... 


Cool! I get static! (hey, at least it works) 


I have been able to capture video without a problem (at least a for a minute 
or two), but need to test it a bit more. 

I've aready setup mythtv, but when it tries to tune to the default channel, 
I get an illegal instruction error (I'm using a G3, and the ATrpms are 
probally optimized for a G4 or better). 

Still, it's progress! 

Thanks again,
Henry 

 

Ricardo Lugo writes: 

> Well, I tested the ivtvfbctl command on my machine, and it hangs for  
> me as well. Perhaps there is some endian-related bug in ivtvfbctl? 
> 
> I think you should just proceed on with setting up MythTV. 
> 
> Can you at least capture from the card? ( dd if=/dev/video0  
> of=bla.mpg ).
> If so, try using utils/v4l2-ctl to set your input to Tuner, use utils/ 
> perl/ptune to set the channel, and try that dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/ 
> video16 again. If not, there could be something wrong with the card  
> itself. If you've got a windows machine lying around try it out with  
> the official Hauppauge drivers and make sure you've got a working card. 
> 
> I am using a Mac MDD "windtunnel" G4 that I silenced like the  
> xlr8yourmac articles (MAN was this thing loud before!), with the  
> following kernel: 
> 
> Linux tube 2.6.19.2 #6 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 22 22:21:12 EST 2007 ppc  
> GNU/Linux 
> 
> - Rick 
> 
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Mailing list account wrote: 
> 
>> 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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