Comments on: X-Out on a PVR-350

By: Pedro Pessoa

Pedro Pessoa — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:13:06 +0000

Errol,

I’m having your third problem. Exactly what and where did you set to NTSC? I’m also using PAL, supposely everywhere because I’m in Europe.

By: Errol Siegel

Errol Siegel — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:15:25 +0000

I solved the third problem listed above (I needed to be using NTSC not PAL) but I am still very interested in solving problems #2 and #3. I would appreciate any suggestions…

Thanks,
Errol

By: Errol Siegel

Errol Siegel — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:12:54 +0000

I feel like I am very close to having this working. I had everything looking good just viewing on my monitor. I used the info from the sample xorg.conf and now it almost works.

First problem: Once X starts, I get output to the TV only — no my monitor.

Second problem: The menu screens are cut off around the edges. You referred to a link, but your post didn’t actually have the link in it.

Third problem: When I watch TV, it only shows the top 2/3 of the image (the bottom part of the screen still shows the background from the menu).

I appreciate any help you can offer.

Thanks,
Errol

By: Antoine

Antoine — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:42:27 +0000

Hi,

I’ve followed instructions above and I’ve no signal on my tv (nor on my console). XWindows seems not to complain but there is nothing to see. I’ve checked the pvr card with console commands (trying to redirect /dev/video0 stream to a mpeg file).

Here’s is my X configuration.

regards

X11 Configuration file

———————————

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “XFree86 Configured”
Screen 0 “TV Screen” 0 0
#Screen 0 “Screen 1″ # : integer, : float, : “True”/”False”,
### : “String”, : ” Hz/kHz/MHz”
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option “ShadowFB” # []
#Option “DefaultRefresh” # []
Identifier “Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer”
Driver “ivtvdev”
Option “fbdev” “/dev/fb0″ #

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 27 May 2005 11:37:44 +0000

(WW) ivtvdev: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:17:0)

why don’t i follow the advise from logfile. It has to be the result of scancpi from X or something like that. Putting this BusID in my xorg.conf and not the one from lspci the xserver comes up properly, and i am now able to watch tv with mythtv while my monitor shows a gnome desktop. *smile*

thanx

By: Denis

Denis — Thu, 26 May 2005 09:11:08 +0000

i want to thank you for your adwises here but i still can’t get it to work. i made all the changes to xorg.conf and copied the binary driver ivtvdev to specified folder.
i start my xserver with:
$startx — :1 -layout TV
this is what i get
(II) IVTVDEV: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(WW) ivtvdev: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:17:0) found
(EE) No devices detected.

this is my device section
Section “Device”
Identifier “Hauppauge PVR350″
Driver “ivtvdev”
Option “ivtv” “/dev/fb1″
BusID “0:0×11:00″
EndSection

$cat /proc/fb
0 VESA VGA
1 iTVC15 TV out

i don’t know why the BusID in the configfile differs from BusID in the logfile. what about the primary device listed in the logfile. this is obviously my agpcard, but it wasn’t specified in my “screen section” of xorg.conf.
do i have to recompile the Xserver as sugested in ivtv-drivers-readme with the delivered patch?
Thanx

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 23 May 2005 09:06:33 +0000

I have the same problem. A quick google came up with this link this link which suggests you can move the X display around by twiddling the SAA7127 chip’s register bits. I might have a play with this if I have a spare hour sometime…

By: jMi

jMi — Sun, 22 May 2005 22:49:39 +0000

I’ve followed the instructions and got it ‘working’ – thank you very much. However, the picture is “too big” for my television (i.e. I’m missing most of the top and bottom menu bars, and a little bit off both sides).

All the posts I’ve found suggest that 720×576 is indeed the right size, but I can’t figure out why I’m missing the edges of the picture. Do you have any suggestions as to what to try? I’m using a Sony widescreen TV and I’ve got NTL digital cable.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 20 May 2005 08:26:04 +0000

Using kubuntu, I found that I needed to (re)install the x windows system otherwise fonts were missing and the X wouldn’t start.

apt-get install x-window-system

solved this problem.