On vr, 2007-08-10 at 20:27 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I don't recall your initial post, regarding your actual intentions with 
> PVR350's TV-Out. You did not indicate if you had it working before, in which 
> case you already know everything below. But I guess you're trying to get 
> this to work for the first time.
> 
> MythTV's support for sending video playback through PVR350's TV-Out is, for 
> all intents and purposes has been abandoned and obsoleted. 

At the moment only for kernel 2.6.22 as this changed the api. Quoting
Hans below about the mythtv support for kernel <2.6.22. I am not sure if
he found someone willing to write mythtv support for 2.6.22 and up.

On vr, 2007-02-02 at 00:21 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Recently I've seen several comments that PVR350 support would not
> work 
> or would be removed from MythTV. While it is true that there is no 
> current maintainer for the PVR350 code in MythTV (AFAIK), that
> doesn't 
> mean that it doesn't work. The ivtv API is still unchanged and as
> long 
> as the code remains in MythTV it should work just fine. 
-----
And also:

On vr, 2007-02-02 at 00:21 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Should the PVR350 support in MythTV break for whatever reason, then 
> please post a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll try my best to
> fix it. 
----

> The only use for 
> PVR350's TV-Out involves running X on PVR350's framebuffer, essentially 
> running your desktop on the TV display, instead of your VGA monitor. Then, 
> you run MythTV normally, just like always, but since the video is now going 
> to the TV-Out, that's where you see the video. I've been doing this for 
> years, and it works fine, but this means that, pretty much, you have to 
> dedicate your machine to MythTV's duties.

Only rcently the official xdriver code on ivtvdriver.org was updated
with autotooled building, Xorg 7.1 support and lots of fixes.

> Configuring X to run on ivtv_fb is tedious. First of all, you need to 
> reconfigure your grub configuration to boot using the VESA framebuffer for 
> the system console. Some bug in the Linux kernel, whose nature is not clear 
> to me, results in a completely unusable console if you try to start the 
> ivtv_fb framebuffer with the default system console, unless you boot in VESA 
> mode.

I am sure Hans would appreciate a bug report report for the issues you
see with the ivtv-fb module.

Most of the instruction in this email are already documented on the wiki
[1] but it could use some love from an experienced user. Care updating
it?

Greets
Sander

[1] http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:XDriver


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