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altmcf at gmail

Sep 17, 2007, 4:25 PM

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updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output

Hello ... have been reading the lists and hacking away trying to get
my mythbox back up and running. I have had really good luck with FC5
for some time now with PVR-350 output (thank you to the ivtv
developers for this) but needed to upgrade to FC6 (for mythtv SD
support) due to the zap2it closure/SD transition.

Anyway ... I got to this point after downloading the 2.6.22.5 kernel
source and manually building ivtv_fb.ko:

(II) IVTVDEV_TST: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(WW) ivtvdev: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:10:0) found
(--) Chipset PVR-350 found
(EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device /dev/fb0
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
(II) UnloadModule: "ivtvdev"
(EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.

I read another post that said in order to use the PVR-350 output I
would need to manually compile mythtv and do a bunch of other
undocumented stuff or somehow use an older kernel ...

I tried downgrading my kernel to 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 per another message
on this board ... managed (somehow) to get that installed using yum,
modified my grub.conf and rebooted ok.

I figured I would try to rebuild ivtv against the downgraded kernel as
I am out of pre-built package land but yum won't let me install the
rpm I downloaded ... I tried:

yum --obsoletes localinstall kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.src.rpm

but just get a "does not update installed package" and nothing happens.

Can anyone advise on the path of least resistance to getting my
PVR-350 decoder output to work again with the ivtv drivers from where
I am at now? What are my options? Are pre-packaged ivtv_fb modules
coming soon?

Thanks,

-Mike

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sander.sweers at gmail

Sep 18, 2007, 1:13 AM

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Re: updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output [In reply to]

On 9/18/07, Mike Fenston <altmcf [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hello ... have been reading the lists and hacking away trying to get
> my mythbox back up and running. I have had really good luck with FC5
> for some time now with PVR-350 output (thank you to the ivtv
> developers for this) but needed to upgrade to FC6 (for mythtv SD
> support) due to the zap2it closure/SD transition.

Have you seen the wiki entry [1] for Fedora how to setup the ATrpms
repo? This repo has all the modules you need for ivtv.

greets
Sander

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

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altmcf at gmail

Sep 18, 2007, 7:58 AM

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Re: updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output [In reply to]

Unfortunately your answer is not true ... the ATrpms do not contain
all the necessary ivtv modules for PVR-350 tv out. ivtv-fb.ko is
missing ... v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg is missing ... I have pulled the
latest updates for FC6.

when I built ivtv-fb.ko manually I am now running into this problem:

(EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device /dev/fb0

I tried going back to an older kernel 2.6.19-1.2895 (managed to
extract the kernel source also) and tried to rebuild the ivtv driver
under the old kernel but got compile error messages I didn't know how
to deal with. So now I am back to the 2.6.22.5-49 kernel, rebuilt the
ivtv driver and am back where I was before.

I have the ivtv_xdriver from ATrpms ... is that good enough now or do
I need to manually compile something here too? From reading other
posts even if I get X up and running I will have to remove the ATrpms
mythtv and compile it on my own from the revision control repositories
(is this still true?) Does anyone have a stable PVR-350 TV-out now on
the 2.6.22.5-49 kernel? It was rock solid with FC5 ... even when it
flaked out the picture it would self recover.

Can anyone recommend a better supported card (that won't require
manually rebuilding mythtv) that I can purchase for RCA TV-out if they
gave up on the PVR-350 TV-out?

Thanks,

-Mike

On 9/18/07, Sander Sweers <sander.sweers [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Mike Fenston <altmcf [at] gmail> wrote:
> > Hello ... have been reading the lists and hacking away trying to get
> > my mythbox back up and running. I have had really good luck with FC5
> > for some time now with PVR-350 output (thank you to the ivtv
> > developers for this) but needed to upgrade to FC6 (for mythtv SD
> > support) due to the zap2it closure/SD transition.
>
> Have you seen the wiki entry [1] for Fedora how to setup the ATrpms
> repo? This repo has all the modules you need for ivtv.
>
> greets
> Sander
>
> [1] http://www.ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Fedora
>
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dsegel at gmail

Sep 18, 2007, 8:48 AM

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Re: updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output [In reply to]

On 9/17/07, Mike Fenston <altmcf [at] gmail> wrote:
> (WW) ivtvdev: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:10:0) found

Are you sure you have things configured properly in your xorg.conf
file? What does lspci show you?

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Sep 18, 2007, 8:58 AM

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Re: updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output [In reply to]

On 9/18/07, Mike Fenston <altmcf [at] gmail> wrote:
> Unfortunately your answer is not true ... the ATrpms do not contain
> all the necessary ivtv modules for PVR-350 tv out. ivtv-fb.ko is
> missing ...

Yes it does. Which architecture are you on? For example on i386
ivtv-fb.ko is in the ivtv-kmdl-2.6.22.1-32.fc6-1.0.2-134.fc6.i686.rpm.

> v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg is missing ... I have pulled the
> latest updates for FC6.

This is in ivtv-firmware-20070217-13.noarch.rpm which I would expect
would be pulled in by ivtv-kmdl.

> when I built ivtv-fb.ko manually I am now running into this problem:
>
> (EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device /dev/fb0

Are you sure it is /dev/fb0 and not /dev/fb1 (cat /proc/fb). Is the
module loaded at all?

> I have the ivtv_xdriver from ATrpms ... is that good enough now or do
> I need to manually compile something here too? From reading other
> posts even if I get X up and running I will have to remove the ATrpms
> mythtv and compile it on my own from the revision control repositories
> (is this still true?) Does anyone have a stable PVR-350 TV-out now on
> the 2.6.22.5-49 kernel? It was rock solid with FC5 ... even when it
> flaked out the picture it would self recover.

The Xdriver has received much love from the developers lately and if
you want to use the version currently in svn trunk you will need to
rebuild mythtv with a patch. This only applies if you want to use the
build in support for the tv-out in mythtv not when you only use the
Xdriver.

The one that is in the ATrpms repo should work fine with ivtv-fb.

Can you please stop top posting, thanks.

Greets
Sander

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Sep 18, 2007, 9:24 AM

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Re: updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output [In reply to]

On 9/18/07, Sander Sweers <sander.sweers [at] gmail> wrote:
> > I have the ivtv_xdriver from ATrpms ... is that good enough now or do
> > I need to manually compile something here too? From reading other
> > posts even if I get X up and running I will have to remove the ATrpms
> > mythtv and compile it on my own from the revision control repositories
> > (is this still true?) Does anyone have a stable PVR-350 TV-out now on
> > the 2.6.22.5-49 kernel? It was rock solid with FC5 ... even when it
> > flaked out the picture it would self recover.

*Correction*

For the ivtv-fb module which comes with ivtv-1.0.x mythtv needs a
patch to work correctly with the build in support for tv-out. This
does not apply if you only use Xdriver AFAIK.

Greets
Sander

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altmcf at gmail

Sep 18, 2007, 10:26 AM

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Re: updated to FC6 - looking for path of least resistance to PVR-350 output [In reply to]

On 9/18/07, Sander Sweers <sander.sweers [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Mike Fenston <altmcf [at] gmail> wrote:
> > Unfortunately your answer is not true ... the ATrpms do not contain
> > all the necessary ivtv modules for PVR-350 tv out. ivtv-fb.ko is
> > missing ...
>
> Yes it does. Which architecture are you on? For example on i386
> ivtv-fb.ko is in the ivtv-kmdl-2.6.22.1-32.fc6-1.0.2-134.fc6.i686.rpm.
>
> > v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg is missing ... I have pulled the
> > latest updates for FC6.
>
> This is in ivtv-firmware-20070217-13.noarch.rpm which I would expect
> would be pulled in by ivtv-kmdl.
>
> > when I built ivtv-fb.ko manually I am now running into this problem:
> >
> > (EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device /dev/fb0
>
> Are you sure it is /dev/fb0 and not /dev/fb1 (cat /proc/fb). Is the
> module loaded at all?
>
> > I have the ivtv_xdriver from ATrpms ... is that good enough now or do
> > I need to manually compile something here too? From reading other
> > posts even if I get X up and running I will have to remove the ATrpms
> > mythtv and compile it on my own from the revision control repositories
> > (is this still true?) Does anyone have a stable PVR-350 TV-out now on
> > the 2.6.22.5-49 kernel? It was rock solid with FC5 ... even when it
> > flaked out the picture it would self recover.
>
> The Xdriver has received much love from the developers lately and if
> you want to use the version currently in svn trunk you will need to
> rebuild mythtv with a patch. This only applies if you want to use the
> build in support for the tv-out in mythtv not when you only use the
> Xdriver.
>
> The one that is in the ATrpms repo should work fine with ivtv-fb.
>
> Can you please stop top posting, thanks.
>
> Greets
> Sander
>
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>

sorry about the top posting ... bad habits! ... here is the info for
your questions (below) ... pretty sure I have the latest stuff for
FC6. I did a box upgrade from FC5 to FC6 and did everything again for
ivtv on Jarod's howto site. I did an updatedb and then locate
ivtv-fb.ko before building that myself ... maybe a yum malfunction ...
dunno ...

In any case I think you answered my question. PVR-350 TV-out support
is not available yet in mythtv using ATrpms packages (as it was in
FC5). I just bought a scan converter on Ebay that I can hook up to
the VGA port on the mythbox PC ... hopefully it will work well enough
to keep the wife happy short term ...

will try the PVR-350 mythtv/TV-out route in the future (once full
ATrpms package support is there) depending on how the scan converter
works out ...

[root [at] mythbo firmware]# yum info ivtv
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
Name : ivtv
Arch : i386
Epoch : 1
Version: 1.0.2
Release: 134.fc6
Size : 141 k
Repo : atrpms
Summary: An iTVC15/16 and CX23415/16 driver
Description:
The primary goal of the IvyTV Project is to create a kernel driver for
the iTVC15 familiy of MPEG codecs. The iTVC15 family includes the
iTVC15 (CX24315) and iTVC16 (CX24316). These chips are commonly found
on Hauppauge's WinTV PVR-250 and PVR-350 TV capture cards.

[root [at] mythbo firmware]# cat /proc/fb
0 cx23415 TV out

-Mike

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