XV on PVR-350

XV on PVR-350 How-To

This How-To outlines how to get the xv extension working on the TV-Out of the Hauppauge PVR-350 in linux. This how-to focuses on Gentoo, but the information should be useful for other distributions as well. This also assumes that you have tvout working on the PVR-350, or at least some parts of MythTV already working.

1. Upgrade to the newest release of Ivtv, at this time, ivtv-0.3.8.

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge ivtv

1. Upgrade/Install x.org. I used version 6.8.2-r5, but any new-ish release should be ok
1. Download the XDriver from here: http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/xdriver/
1. Unzip the archive into the source directory for X, in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ivtv directory
1. Edit xc/config/cf/xorg.cf and look for #define XF86[[Card Drivers]]. Add "ivtv" somewhere in that list.
1. Run a make clean and make install in that directory to install the ivtv driver.
1. Edit your XF86Config file to contain the following (replace with your own fbdev and BusID as appropriate):

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        Driver "ivtvdev"
        Option  "fbdev" "/dev/fb2"
        BusID  "PCI:0:10:0"
[[End Section]]

• attachment:XF86Config_relevant_parts

Start X!

In order to facilitate, I created a patch and custom ebuild to download/install xdriver and patch the xorg.cf file.

• attachment:ivtv.xorg.cf.patch
• attachment:xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5.ebuild

This How-To written by Jeff Simpson

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