I'm running 2.6.10-1.9_FC2 and have been following Jarod Wilson's HOWTO for setting up MythTV. I have been working for a week now to get a complete installation, I've gotten bits and pieces to work with FC3 and FC2, but can't get either to work totally. I've decided to run FC2 since it will run X out the tv-out of the pvr-350 (FC3 freezes at that point).
I am running the latest ivtv from atrpms.net in the at-testing tree. I can have X use the tv-out from the pvr-350, works great. I can save an .mpg file from /dev/video0 and play it back using mplayer, works great. If I try "dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k" however, nothing appears on the TV. Running dmesg shows no errors, it says at the end: (not exact, but nearly) saa7115 output is disabled saa7115 output is enabled User halted playback (from when I hit Ctrl-C to stop dd) Trying to play the same .mpg that works with mplayer out /dev/video16 also doesn't work. One curious item, I had to add "options ivtv tuner=47" to modprobe.conf to get /dev/video0 to start displaying a picture, before it was all static. The section from modprobe.conf that I added now looks like: # ivtv modules setup alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv options ivtv tuner=47 install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb >From reading the docs that came with ivtv, tuner type 47 isn't in there, it stops at 45, but from another log file, I know this PVR-350 I just bought is being reported as type 47. So, from all that I've tried (and I've tried everything I've found in several message boards and mailing lists) it appears that for some reason, my card isn't being detected properly, hence needing the tuner=47 option. Is there another option to specify what decoder I have? It seems to know the decoder is a saa7115, simply won't output from it. I tried cardtype=2 (for PVR-350) but that had no change on my system. I didn't see any other options from modules.txt that applied to the decoder. Is there anyway to verify that /dev/video16 is there on my system? It doesn't show up with "ll /dev/video?". I've spent 4-6 hours a night for the last week on this, and although I feel like I'm really close to getting this working, I'm ready to quit out of pure frustration, I hope someone on this list can help me. -Ron Piwetz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Ivtv-users mailing list Ivtv-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-users
