Current versions of ivtv should work ok. Anything that is over a couple of weeks old has problems but there are some workarounds with kernel boot options. I think it's a vga= option. You should be able to find it if you search on the ivtv-dev mailing list.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) > Sent: 25 December 2004 13:18 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success > > Matt, > > I have just given up on FC3 - there sees to be problems with the ivtv_fb > driver under FC3. > > I'm going back to FC2 - I had a fully stable system running for months. > > Last time I upgrade without reason :) > > M. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Mencel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:51 AM > Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success > > > > I'm running FC3 (2.6.9-1.681_FC3) and have used Jarod's HOWTO to get > this > > far. My PVR-350 is fairly new and boasts the Type 47 tuner. > > > > Last night I finally was able to successfully get SOMETHING on my TV. I > > went through the steps in Jarod's guide. I was able to record a signal > > off > > of /dev/video and play it back in mplayer...and also view it live and > tune > > to different channels using the ptune-ui applet. I never got a clear > > signal > > though. I could see colors and see the picture shifting when something > > changed on the screen, but it was all in thin diagonal strips going from > > the > > upper left side to the lower right side...with lots of black interlaced > > between and around the colored diagonals. > > > > So I stopped messing with that and went on to trying to get it onto my > TV. > > When I start '/sbin/modprobe ivtv' my TV screen goes all green. Then > when > > I > > start '/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb' my TV gets alternating green/pink or > > green/white snowyish stripes going diagonally down from upper left to > > lower > > right. Then I attempted to feed the PVR-350 input straight through to > the > > TV-OUT using 'dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k'. As soon as I > did > > that I got a ghost image of the TV feed coming through behind the > > green/pink/white stripes. I could see outlines of people and objects > but > > definitely no details. The audio was coming through just fine. > > > > So now...that's where I'm at. Has anyone seen similar issues to this > that > > might help me figure out the problem so I can get this going? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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