I'm happy to report that my old Powermac G3/300 is happily (well, mostly) running MythTV with a PVR-350, including X.
I had to compile my own saa7127 module, and apply Ian Armstrong's X-driver patch to the latest svn source (it had to be modified to apply to the ./src/ directory of the tree for the latest 7.x modular xorg. While the X-driver is really slow (at least on my lowly G3/300 machine), it's fast enough to do Myth, and the PVR-350 is working great with the ivtv 0.10.1 driver. Now it's time to play! (I have to reconfigure the mysql account to accept external connections so I can serve several frontends). Thanks again for your help Rick! Henry On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 22:02 -0500, Ricardo Lugo wrote: > On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Henry Leinhos wrote: > > > Well, It all seems to be working! (more or less) > > Congrats! > > > <snip> > > > > Now I get (mostly) everything working, except for the X has messed-up > > colors related to endian issues (what patches are out there for the > > latest ivtv_xdriver?). > > Here's the thread. To summarize, Ian Armstrong proposed some changes > to the Xdriver that byte-swaps the framebuffer shadow memory in a > very efficient way on big-endian machines. It introduces a bit of > overhead into every write to the display, but Ian did a great job of > minimizing the impact of this necessary evil. > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/34383? > nohighlight=1#34383 > > Note that these patches were made for the 6.9 version of the Xdriver, > so they won't apply to the trunk version for modular Xorg (7.1) that > you've got, so they will need some modifications... > > > My machine is only a 300MHz G3 (ppc750), but it can record a single > > channel without much cpu load. I'm getting some pauses during > > playback, > > but those may be related to other system settings. > > Make sure you've got checked the "Use the PVR-350's TV-out / MPEG > decoder" in your MythTV settings (Utilities > Setup > TV Settings > > Playback). Just beware that it is a bit buggy on PPC still... > > - Rick > > _______________________________________________ > 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
