[mythtv-users] At long Last...

[Michael T. Dean]

Brian Boyle wrote:

> The version of Myth I am using is .15.1. I also tried to get “the” X 
> driver working (the IVTVFB driver) but was unsuccessful. When I tried 
> it all I got was a black screen with a curser. This says to me that 
> the IVTV driver was working since I have still got the patch working 
> but when I changed my X config file to use IVTVDEV instead of FBDEV it 
> was then that everything failed.
>
> I am guessing that it is the FBDEV driver that is causing the 
> recordings to stop. Has anyone else had a problem like this???
>
Yep, that's probably the problem. When I only had PVR-350 TV out, I 
couldn't start up mythfrontend because of the chances of a recording 
failing--and I was using ivtvdev--so I could record, but I couldn't 
watch. I had a Via chipset, so I got a new mobo with SiS chipset and a 
GF4MX440 and am loving it.

Without the ivtvdev X driver, PVR-350 framebuffer access is almost 
guaranteed to cause problems with the firmware--requiring a firmware 
reload--which 0.1.9 cannot do automatically-- to continue 
encoding/decoding. Newer versions of ivtv (somewhere around 
ivtv-0.1.10pre2-ck9x) disable framebuffer access and require DMA access 
(like that used by ivtvdev).

I recommend you either keep working on getting the ivtvdev driver 
working or, better yet, use a different TV output. That way, you can get 
good Goom. ;)

Mike