[mythtv-users] how to get X and mythfrontend to use 350 TV Out(almost working)

Marc Mosthav marc at mosthav.com
Sat Jan 31 19:50:56 EST 2004


Silly question, but are you loading ivtv-fb?

Marc
----- Original Message -----
From: "malcolm-mythtv" <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] how to get X and mythfrontend to use 350 TV
Out(almost working)


> I've spent the whole day trying to figure out how to get my 350's TV out
> working.
>
> I got to the point where this command works
>
> dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
>
> I get a picture and sound just fine on my TV.
>
> What I haven't been able to figure out is how in the world do I make X and
> mythfrontend use the TV out instead of my monitor?
>
> I've attached a copy of my /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file since I think that's
> where all the magic happens.
>
> I've also attached the output of
> lspci -v
> since I think that affects the "busid" line in XF86config-4 (I'm not sure
I
> can figure it out).
>
> fb1 is also confirmed to be my frame buffer device for the 350 by doing
"grep
> fb1 /var/log/messages" and finding references to it at boot.
>
> Ohh and I don't see any errors related to this problem in
/var/log/messages,
> /var/log/dmesg, or /var/log/XFree86.0.log but I'll gladly send those to if
> someone needs to see.
>
> I'd really appreciate any pointers or links etc.
> BTW are there any official docs on getting the PVR-350 tv out to work?
>
> Oh yeah system specs would probably help
> 2.4 Celeron / 512 DDR
> Mandrake 9.2
> kernel.org kernel compiled with v4l2 patch
> mythtv 0.13 (I see 0.14 has just been released - woo hoo) (compiled from
> source)
> ivtv 0.1.9
>
> Thanks guys
> Malcolm
>
>
>
>
>


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