No, I am not running X on the TV (that would require a driver that I did not install). X is displayed on my monitor, but a terminal, I think it is tty1, is displayed on my tv. The terminal stays there when I put MythTV's output on the TV. So I can see the TV-images around the edges, but most of the screen's surface is being blocked by the black square (=the terminal).

Incidentally, when I try to follow the steps to actually display X on my TV (in Matt's link below), I get stuck in the first step. modprobe ivtv-fb does NOT results in the suggested entries in /var/log/syslog... it does not result in any entry.

Any ideas?

Paul

Matt Andruff wrote:
so you have X on your tv out.(awesome) your just having issues with playbacK in Myth? Have you taken the step to enable playback on tv in Myth <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Feisty_hardware_pvr-350_TV-out#head-b95b766c73b58a224b1418e7d3a22d7ddad267bc>?

On 4/22/07, *Paul van Gerven* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    I have been struggling to get my TV-out working on ivtv (installed
    on Ubuntu Feisty). Mythtv works fine, so ivtv is installed
    correctly. (I can use my 'other' TV-output which converts VGA to
    Composite. The quality of this picture is acceptable, but not
    great; I know the 350's TV-out is much better).

    I can give the following information:

    1) As soon as I connected the TV-out cable to the 350 and the TV,
    I got a black screen on the TV. This means it is sending a signal,
    because the screen is blue when the TV is not getting any signal
    at all.

    2) I live in Europe, and need a PAL(-B/G) signal.

    3) I played around with some old (!) information from

    http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutPal and
    http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutHowto

    which instructs what lines to add to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases (I
    think thats the Ubuntu equivalent of /etc/modules.conf). Long
    story short, some combination of lines (which I cannot remember
    and have not been able to reproduce) gave a crystal clear
    TV-output with MythTV (which I set up to use /dev/video16).
    However: no sound and no overlay (for example, when I activated
    the program guide, it would not appear on the screen).

    I remember examining the output of dmesg and it seemed the lines I
    was adding to aliases contained syntaxes that were not (or no
    longer) recognized. Which line/command was the magic one to enable
    the TV-out, I cannot tell.

    4) I restored my original aliases file, but added

    install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb

    as suggested in


    http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/IVTV_Install
    and updated the modules and rebooted. By chance I noticed some
    text flashing on the TV while rebooting! Now, If I press
    cntrl-alt-f1 my monitor goes blank and I see the terminal on the
    TV. Also when booting into recovery mode, I see the messages
    floating by on my monitor until it hits ivtv0-fb, after which the
    output switches to the TV.

    /In this situation, when I watch TV on MythTV, I get a black
    screen with the terminal covering almost all of the screen. Only
    at the edges I see a TV-picture. Also, still no sound. /

    5) When I do: sudo rmmod saa7127, the tv-screen goes blue, as
    expected.

    6) Current output of dmesg:

    [   16.543497] ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV
    ====================
    [   16.543500] ivtv:  version 0.10.1 (tagged release) loading
    [   16.543501] ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.20-15-generic SMP
    mod_unload 586
    [   16.543503] ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug
    info between
    [   16.543504] ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines,
    along with
    [   16.543506] ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the
    ivtv-users mailinglist.
    [   16.543793] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415 based)
    [   17.215564] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144
    bytes)
    [   17.237366] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144
    bytes)
    [   17.464035] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
    [   17.464037] ivtv0: Recommended firmware version is 0x02060039.
    [   17.472094] ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
    [   17.540695] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350
    [   17.561657] tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
    [   17.566192] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
    [   17.632573] saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @
    0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
    [   17.873437] saa7127 0-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c
    driver #0)
    [   17.901274] msp3400 0-0040: MSP4418G-B3 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c
    driver #0)
    [   17.901358] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
    [   17.901473] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
    [   17.901601] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
    [   17.901649] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM
    audio (1 MB)
    [   17.901805] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
    [   17.901825] ivtv0: Registered device video16 for decoder MPEG
    (1 MB)
    [   17.901863] ivtv0: Registered device vbi8 for decoder VBI (1 MB)
    [   17.902132] ivtv0: Registered device vbi16 for decoder VOUT
    [   17.902152] ivtv0: Registered device video48 for decoder YUV (1 MB)
    [   17.976424] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648
    bytes)
    [   18.463544] ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, card #0
[ 18.463552] ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
    [   18.490481] ivtv0-fb: Framebuffer at 0xf5510000, mapped to
    0xfa390000, size 1665k
    [   18.565743] ivtv0-fb: === Validated display mode  ===
    [   18.565745] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ 8bpp
    [   18.565746] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49
    [   18.565747] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on
    [   18.565748] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB
    [   18.590694] ivtv0-fb: === Display mode change ===
    [   18.590697] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ 8bpp
    [   18.590699] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49
    [   18.590701] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on
    [   18.590702] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB
    [   18.614861] ivtv0-fb: Framebuffer registered on ivtv card id 0
    [   43.551436] ivtv0-fb: === Validated display mode  ===
    [   43.551439] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ 8bpp
    [   43.551440] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49
    [   43.551441] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on
    [   43.551442] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB
    [   43.559209] ivtv0-fb: === Display mode change ===
    [   43.559212] ivtv0-fb: Display size 640x480 (640x480 Virtual) @ 8bpp
    [   43.559214] ivtv0-fb: Display position 41,49
    [   43.559216] ivtv0-fb: Display filter : on
    [   43.559217] ivtv0-fb: Color space : RGB



    I am getting very close to a solution, but after many hours of
    googling and reading I am kind of stuck here. The documentation on
    this is mostly outdated, I feel. Any help would be greatly
    appreciated (as in... I'll do your chemistry homework ;) )

    Regards,

    Crakie

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