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thomas at boerkel

Mar 5, 2004, 1:15 AM

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PVR-350 TV-out question

HI!

Soon, I'll plan to try the TV-out of my PVR-350. There is one thing I do
not understand though:

If I use the TV-out of the 350 and hook my TV to it, where do I see the
text console (during boot or when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1)? I guess,
nowhere, since the TV-out of the 350 only works for X.

Thanks!

Thomas

zardoz at ZardoZ

Mar 5, 2004, 3:40 AM

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Re: PVR-350 TV-out question [In reply to]

you are right.

for debugging, you would need to use the vga instead.
but from months of experience, I never needed it.
ssh rocks :-)

z

On Friday 05 March 2004 09:15, Thomas Börkel wrote:
> HI!
>
> Soon, I'll plan to try the TV-out of my PVR-350. There is one thing I do
> not understand though:
>
> If I use the TV-out of the 350 and hook my TV to it, where do I see the
> text console (during boot or when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1)? I guess,
> nowhere, since the TV-out of the 350 only works for X.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas

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stanb at panix

Mar 5, 2004, 5:11 AM

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Re: PVR-350 TV-out question [In reply to]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:15:23AM +0100, Thomas B?rkel wrote:
> HI!
>
> Soon, I'll plan to try the TV-out of my PVR-350. There is one thing I do
> not understand though:
>
> If I use the TV-out of the 350 and hook my TV to it, where do I see the
> text console (during boot or when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1)? I guess,
> nowhere, since the TV-out of the 350 only works for X.
>

If you set up to have the (only) X session running on the WinTV card, then all the normal
console sesions should still be there on your monitor conected to you graphics card.

It's theoreticly possible to run more than 1 X session (I do this on machines at work), so I
plan on setting up 2 C sessions, one on the promary graphics card, and a 2nd on the PVR-350's
frame buffer.

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mythtv at hribnak

Mar 5, 2004, 9:02 AM

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Re: PVR-350 TV-out question [In reply to]

I made sure for testing I had a monitor hooked up. Once the framebuffer
was loaded the monitor went back and I had image on the TV (My first image
was the Xwindow boot screen)

once you have a working config you should not need the monitor unless the
bootup is failing before starting X

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Börkel" <thomas [at] boerkel>
To: "mythtv-users" <mythtv-users [at] mythtv>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:15 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-out question

> HI!
>
> Soon, I'll plan to try the TV-out of my PVR-350. There is one thing I do
> not understand though:
>
> If I use the TV-out of the 350 and hook my TV to it, where do I see the
> text console (during boot or when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1)? I guess,
> nowhere, since the TV-out of the 350 only works for X.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>
>

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Bill at Explosivo

Mar 5, 2004, 9:31 AM

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RE: PVR-350 TV-out question [In reply to]

I've had a few lockups (well, ivtv takes a header anyway) when running
the framebuffer... So I stuck the monitor under the tv and use it on
there. When doing it like, I've never had a lockup

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-out question

I made sure for testing I had a monitor hooked up. Once the
framebuffer
was loaded the monitor went back and I had image on the TV (My first
image was the Xwindow boot screen)

once you have a working config you should not need the monitor unless
the bootup is failing before starting X

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Börkel" <thomas [at] boerkel>
To: "mythtv-users" <mythtv-users [at] mythtv>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:15 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-out question

> HI!
>
> Soon, I'll plan to try the TV-out of my PVR-350. There is one thing I
> do not understand though:
>
> If I use the TV-out of the 350 and hook my TV to it, where do I see
> the text console (during boot or when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1)? I guess,
> nowhere, since the TV-out of the 350 only works for X.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>
>

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wagner at rince

Mar 5, 2004, 9:36 AM

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Re: PVR-350 TV-out question [In reply to]

Hi,

MythTV schrieb am 05. März 2004:

> I made sure for testing I had a monitor hooked up. Once the framebuffer
> was loaded the monitor went back and I had image on the TV (My first image
> was the Xwindow boot screen)

That's okay. But at least I use /dev/fb0 there and then I can simply
not use the monitor for virtual consoles, because everything is on
the framebuffer /dev/fb0, and not even text-consoles are working on
the monitor (which I would love to have ;-)

> once you have a working config you should not need the monitor unless the
> bootup is failing before starting X

Well - I have the problem currenty that the box sometimes just
freezes - doesn't do anything on the TV (just the freezed picture),
no ping via network, nothing. And of course no oops-message or so
since I do not have a console where he could write it to. That's why
I'd like to have the monitor there, to see the alert- and
kernelpanicmessages if there are any.

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