[mythtv-users] RE: Problems starting X with PVR 350

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/21/2004 01:25 PM, Robert Kulagowski wrote:

>> thanks a lot for all the clarifications never ever found on any
>> website about the ivtv driver behavior.
>>
>> So, things were simplified, but the doc is lagging behind and
>> contribute to make things complicates or even break the whole thing.
>
> Well, if you're talking about the ck series of ivtv patches, I think 
> that someone was stepping forward on the IVTV mailing list with an 
> IVTV docs wiki to try to pull together the new information.  I haven't 
> updated the MythTV HOWTO because it's still accurate for the released 
> version of ivtv.  I don't know if tmk is going to release a new 
> version of his driver, pick one of ck's versions and bless it as 
> "official" or what.  Once that gets resolved I'll make the appropriate 
> changes.

I agree--it's not yet time to update the MythTV HOWTO for the new ck 
series.  And, that means that there's not much in the way of 
documentation for them.  As a matter of fact, even the IvyTV WIKI hasn't 
been updated for the new development releases.

Since the ck patches are development versions--and are changing very 
quickly--about the only way to stay abreast of the changes is to 
subscribe to and read the messages on the ivtv ML's.  Unfortunately, 
doing so takes a lot of time.  Fortunately, there are a few people who 
do read them that don't mind answering questions about them from people 
who aren't reading the lists.

The best documentation for the ck series currently exists in the doc 
directory of the patched source code (taken from a collaborative 
effort--spearheaded by and most of the work done by David Greaves--to 
update the docs through the MythTV WIKI at 
http://mythtv.info/moin.cgi/IvTv_2fPreRelease10Docs ).  Unfortunately, 
since these were done at the end of the ck80's--when Hans was pushing 
for an ivtv-0.1.10pre3 release--they're somewhat out of date.  (Note, 
also, that the reason there wasn't a pre3 release has more to do with 
the hardware than the drivers--Chris and Hans decided that it would be 
better to make some major, but necessary, changes before the next pre 
release, and it's taking time to complete the changes.)

Mike