Congrats, Henry! Any change you could post the patches you had to make to the modular X source? It would be great if the big-endian code could be included in the official Xdriver code.
- Rick On Apr 18, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Henry Leinhos wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
