> On Friday 03 August 2007 20:10:56 Jurgen Goedbloed wrote:
>> Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> > On Friday 03 August 2007 13:57:53 Jurgen Goedbloed wrote:
>> >>>> In an effort to get my PVR-350 working on my fedora 7 box, I
>> >>>> updated the kernel and ivtv packages to 2.6.22.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> But now when I start X, it doesn't start, but gives an error.
>> >>>> Has something (ie ivtv-fb) changed that the X driver doesn't
>> >>>> work anymore?
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, it has. The Xdriver is being converted but there is no
>> >>> official release as yet. However, you can get a version that
>> >>> should work here:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://ivtvdriver.org/viewcvs/xdriver/trunk.tar.gz?view=tar
>> >>>
>> >>> Feedback is appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> I tried to compile the driver, but it gave an error.
>> >> ...
>> >
>> > You're missing the linux/limits.h header for some reason. You might
>> > have to install the kernel-devel package (not sure if that's the
>> > right package name, I'm no fedora expert).
>>
>> Yep, I needed the kernel-devel package. Compiling and installing OK.
>>
>> The drivers works fine. Some things I have noticed:
>> - You need to load modules in a specific order: saa7127, then ivtv,
>> then ivtv-fb.
>> - When I load the saa7127 module after the ivtv driver, I have to set
>> the standard again (first to something else, then back to PAL B).
>
> Huh? Loading ivtv should load saa7127 automatically. In fact, just
> loading ivtv-fb should pull everything in.

You are right. Probably because of testing some modules were already
loaded. When i load ivtv-fb then others load.

>> - X server crashes after changing the screen settings in mythtv (GUID
>> width, heigth and offset). I don't know what mythtv is telling the X
>> server then.
>
> Read the README in the ivtv-1.0.1 archive:
>
> NOTE: users of MythTV who use the PVR350 for mpeg decoding need to
> specify the option osd_compat=1 when loading the ivtv-fb module. This
> is not required when using the default Xv output.
>
> I think you need to set this.

Tried that, but then X won't start. I get

(EE) IVTVDEV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
(EE) IVTVDEV(0): Mode init failed

Without the osd_compat=1 X starts fine.

Jurgen.

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