View source for XV on PVR-350

This How-To outlines how to get the xv extension working on the TV-Out of the Hauppauge PVR-350 in various distributions of linux. 
== Configuring x.org (all distributions) ==
This section describes the changes you will need to make to your XF86Config / xorg.conf file in order to enable the X driver.

* Edit your XF86Config (or x.org) file to contain the following. Replace with your own fbdev and BusID as appropriate (see below):
<pre><nowiki>
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        Driver "ivtvdev"
        Option  "fbdev" "/dev/fb2"
        BusID  "PCI:0:10:0"
End Section
</nowiki></pre>
* Get your appropriate BusID from lspci (available from the pcitools package):
<code> lspci |grep video </code>
* Get the appropriate fb device from /proc/fb:
<code> cat /proc/fb </code>

== Compiling the X driver on a RedHat Compatible System ==

I also needed the x driver to get xine to play nice with the PVR-350. These steps worked to compile it on a CentOS 4.2 (RedHat Enterprise) x86_64 System:

* Download and extract xdriver source. Here I'll use the home directory (~).
* Install xorg-x11 source RPM, for me <code>xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.src.rpm</code>
* <code>cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/</code>
* <code>rpmbuild -bc xorg-x11.spec</code> -- This took a good half hour on my 2.8Ghz P4-521. This patches and compiles but does not install the source. I wonder if '<code>rpmbuild -bp</code>' would be enough for this to work?
* <code>cd ~/ivtv_xdriver_0.10.6/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ivtv</code>
* <code>xmkmf /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/xorg-x11-6.8.2/xc</code>
* <code>make</code>
* <code>cp ivtvdev_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers</code>. On an i386 system the destination for the copy should be <code>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers</code>.
* Edit <code>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</code> (see above edits to XF86Config).
* Restart X

The xdriver source compiled without any patches or fixes. Check <code>/var/log/Xorg.0.log</code> after restarting X to see that the driver is loading. My log file stated that the driver is compiled for 4.3.99.902 while I clearly have 6.8.2 installed. Odd, but it still works.

--[[User:Kbocek|Kbocek]] 21:51, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

== Compiling the X driver on Gentoo with Modular X.Org (6.9/7.0) ==

Since Modular Xorg has drivers in separate packages, porting the xdriver to one of these packages was just a matter of hijacking the fbdev package and changing which files it compiled.

# Put the tar.bz2 file in /usr/portage/distfiles<br><code>cp xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles</code><br>
# Put the .ebuild in your portage overlay under x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtv<br><code>mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtvdev/</code><br><code>cp xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtvdev/</code><br>
# Build the digest for the ebuild<br><code>ebuild xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.ebuild digest</code><br>
# Add the package to package.keywords<br><code>echo "x11-drivers/xf86-video-ivtvdev ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords</code><br>
# Add "ivtvdev" to VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf
# Add video_cards_ivtvdev to USE in make.conf
# Emerge the package<br><code>emerge xf86-video-ivtvdev</code>
# Edit xorg.conf (see configuration instructions above)
# Start X!

Notice: these are copies of the source code obtained from ivtvdriver.org, modified for the package structure of modular xorg.

* [http://www.mit.edu/~je18337/ivtvdev/xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.ebuild xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.ebuild]

* [http://www.mit.edu/~je18337/ivtvdev/xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.tar.bz2 xf86-video-ivtvdev-0.10.6.tar.bz2]

* [http://www.mit.edu/~je18337/ivtvdev/ivtvdev_drv.so ivtvdev_drv.so] Binary Driver (no guarantees on if this will work with your specific distribution, you're better off compiling)
--[[User:JeffSimpson|JeffSimpson]] 20:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

== Compiling the X driver on Gentoo with X.Org 6.8.X ==

NOTICE: These instructions are outdated and may no longer work.

This section focuses on installing the X Driver (with XVideo extensions) in Gentoo under x.org 6.8.X. This assumes that you have tvout working on the [[Hauppauge PVR-350]], or at least some parts of MythTV already working.

* Upgrade to the newest release of Ivtv, at this time, ivtv-0.3.8.
 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge ivtv
* Upgrade/Install x.org. I used version 6.8.2-r5, but any new-ish release should be ok
* Download the XDriver from here: http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/xdriver/
* Unzip the archive into the source directory for X, in the
<code><nowiki> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ivtv</nowiki></code> directory
* Edit <code><nowiki>xc/config/cf/xorg.cf</nowiki></code> and look for <code><nowiki>#define XF86[[Card Drivers]]</nowiki></code>. Add "ivtv" somewhere in that list.
* Run a <code><nowiki>make clean</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>make install</nowiki></code> in that directory to install the ivtv driver.
* Edit your <code><nowiki>XF86Config</nowiki></code> file to contain the following. Replace with your own fbdev and BusID as appropriate (see below):
<pre><nowiki>
Section "Device"
        Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
        Driver "ivtvdev"
        Option  "fbdev" "/dev/fb2"
        BusID  "PCI:0:10:0"
[[End Section]]
</nowiki></pre>
* Get your appropriate BusID from lspci (available from the pcitools package):
 lspci |grep video
* Get the appropriate fb device from /proc/fb:
 cat /proc/fb

* 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 (now missing)
* attachment:xorg-x11-6.8.2-r5.ebuild (now missing)

--[[User:JeffSimpson|JeffSimpson]] 20:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[[Category:HOWTO]]