[myth-ie] new install today after three years

[Adrian Smith]

I feel you pain Brendan. These types of problems can be nightmare to
resolve.

Just a suggestion but would you consider using Mythbuntu? It's based on
Ubuntu 7.10 and might help get you around some the problems you're having. I
installed it recently (
http://www.17od.com/2007/10/26/installing-mythbuntu-710/) and found it quite
straight forward.

Adrian

On 15/03/2008, Brendan Kehoe <brendan at zen.org> wrote:
>
> Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> > No luck yet, I'm stuck trying to get the PVR350's tv-out to display
> > properly.  I get the impression there may be issues with using it with
> > Gutsy (7.10), but I sure hope not.
> >
>
>
> How disheartening.  I've lost the day to not getting tv-out to work
> properly.
>
> One strange lead was discovering I need to do (using a new command
> v4l2-ctl) the step
>    /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -s pal-i --set-fbuf=global_alpha=0,local_alpha=1
> after I've loaded the saa7127 driver in order for it to display properly.
>
> That works if I want to do
>   cat foo.mpeg > /dev/video16
>
> Both sound and video work.  However, I'm still failing to get X to come
> up.
>
> (II) IVTV(0): bitsPerPixel=32, depth=24, defaultVisual=TrueColor
>         mask: ff0000,ff00,ff, offset: 16,8,0
> (EE) IVTV(0): FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
> (EE) IVTV(0): Mode init failed
>
> I may try this all again on another day using etch instead of 7.10/gutsy.
>
> I can't believe it's still this difficult.  BIG points lost for me...I
> shouldn't be stuck using a 3+ year-old system because I got it to work
> enough after pulling my hair out.
>
>
> B
>
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