Upgrade to 0.21 did the trick! Thanks a bunch! (Now I see the note in the IVTV readme...... head -> wall )
Thanks! --Rudy On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Ian Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Rudy Scott Pacific Computer Technologies PO Box 185 College Place, WA 99324 http://buypct.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 509-301-4435 (cell) 509-522-1738 (office)
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