On Friday 14 Mar 2008, Rudy Scott wrote: > 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).
All of this is fine. It shows that the drivers are running ok. > 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. Which version of MythTV are you running? For your kernel version (2.6.23), you need MythTV 0.21 to enable the PVR350 playback. Older releases of MythTV won't work. -- Ian _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
