Okay, I think I am oh so close to getting my MythTV PVR runing on 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 working. I've configured and installed the IVTV drivers and the XDriver (I think). It appeared to me that the package name was now: xf86-video-ivtv rather than xf86-video-ivtvdev specified here http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Gentoo#Installing_XDriver.
If I type: dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k I get very nice television to my TV Out. I also configured my xorg.conffile for TV Out. After booting I can now type: modprobe ivtvfb (this appears to supercede the ivtv-fb documented elsewhere?) and I get my console on my PVR-350 TV Out rather than the connected VGA display. If I then repeat the command dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k I can see video peeking out at me at the top and bottom of the screen, but the middle is covered up by my console. If I start xwindows, the entire screen is covered. If I repeat dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k from within xwindows I an hear the audio, but I cannot see any video (I assume it is covered by xwindows screen). If I start mythfrontend, I can watch TV using /dev/video0 (but the encoding quality of my Duron 900 is unacceptable). If I reconfigure mythfrontend to use the PVR-350 hardware encoder for playback then I can a message "error initializing video" when it tries to start playback. Hauppauge model 48132, rev K268 saa7115 saa7129 tuner type 47 (LG TAPE H001F MK3) Encoder version 0x02060039 Decoder version 0x02020023 >From xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "PVR350" Driver "ivtv" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "XVideo" "1" BusID "PCI:00:08:0" Screen 0 End Section Any assistance greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Rudy
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