Matt,
I was having exactly the problems you were, until I put vga=792 in the kernel boot line.
Something about the new kernels using the first framebuffer device without actually capturing /dev/fb0, and therefore ivtv_fb crashes quite badly when it tries to grab it also.
Try that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt D. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:36 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
I've reviewed Jarod's MythTV FC3 HOWTO, using a single PVR-350 in my TV box (and I had a working base FC2 configuration), and I'm at a point now where I believe I can say that it just doesn't work yet. Jarod should take his HOWTO off-line until he's had a chance to fully walk through it with a PVR-350 so that those of us out there who are following it don't end up upgrading into a broken configuration (which we're all doing now).
There are three main problems:
- The ivtv-fb driver isn't up to rc3b yet to fix the problems with the module crashes (and even then doesn't work fully);
- X with TV Out is definitely broken; I've tried both the xorg.conf pointed at from his site, as well as tuning. Modifying the ivtvdev_drv.o doesn't fix it; changing the firmware doesn't work; Using either ivtvdev, fbdev, or any other combination is broken. Changing vga= and video= options doesn't help.
- The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore.
Until these major problems are fixed, people should be pointed to the base FC2 instructions (without downloading the FC2 updates, since you can break your configuration with newer FC2 kernels as well) until these problems are fixed.
All the previous work is really appreciated from both Jarod, Axel, John, and everyone else, but this is clearly a time drain so long as the base FC3/guide configuration doesn't work. This is just my $0.02 from doing this over the past three days and not making much forward progress (and seeing a few mythtv mailing list E-mails from people following Jarod's HOWTO and not seeing answers to their questions).
When there's something really working enough to beta test and/or use, then I'm totally ready to help out. :) Thanks,
--Matt
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