On Monday 23 Apr 2007, Paul van Gerven wrote: > The driver I was referring to is ivtvdev, which you only need if you > want X to be displayed on the tv. ivtv-fb is not a driver, but a module > (if there is such a difference), although it is also required for X to > be displayed on the tv (and I guess for any output through the 350). > > But, anyway, after a couple more hours of fiddling: success! Loading a > vesa framebuffer at boot switched the tv-out fb to /dev/fb1 (it was > /dev/fb0 before) and now Mythtv (or should I say /dev/video16) passes on > great quality picture to the tv! And with sound no less! > > One thing is still wrong, though... the onscreen stuff of Mythtv is not > visible. So when I change channels, I don't see the name/number etc of > the channel, I cannot see the menus, program guides, etc. I would like > that, otherwise there's no real advantage watching tv through mythtv. > > Situation now: mythtv is shown on the monitor, but when you say 'watch > tv' it is switched to the tv (monitor goes blank, but with alt-tab I can > run other programs) > > Situation I'd like: mythtv (menu's, recordings, live tv etc) is always > shown on the tv. Does that require getting X to be displayed through the > 350's tv-out?
You need to load the ivtv-fb module with the option osd_compat=1 -- Ian _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
