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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>mini-HOWTO for
running X on PVR-350 TVOUT with FC2 <BR><BR>Step 1: <BR><BR>Get this file:
<BR></FONT><A href="http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz"><FONT
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size=3>http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz</FONT></A><BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>extract it somewhere and move it
to:<BR>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/<BR
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size=3>chmod 444 ivtvdev_drv.o<BR><BR>Step 2:<BR><BR>get the latest PVR-350
xorg.conf file from <BR></FONT><A
href="http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>and follow the instructions given there<BR><BR>If
your “end user” mythtv project has been dragging out for many weeks now (like
mine) you need to comment out the following line as older versions did not have
this commented on the HOWTO
website.<BR><BR># Load
"fbdevhw"<BR><BR>This is the error that results in /var/log/Xorg.0.log by not
having this commented out:<BR><BR>Duplicate symbol fbdevHWEnterVT in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o<BR>Also defined in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a<BR><BR>Step 3:<BR><BR>I got an error
about /dev/fb0 not existing in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file ... doing <BR>the
following made it go away:<BR><BR>Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and
add<BR><BR>modprobe ivtv-fb<BR><BR>Reboot and you should see X windows running
on your television. At least <BR>I did! </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><BR>Good Luck,<BR><BR>-Mike</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Here is my /etc/modprobe.conf file if anyone is interested:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">alias char-major-61
lirc_i2c<BR>alias eth0 via-rhine<BR>alias eth1 prism54<BR>options ivtv
ivtv_debug=3<BR>alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx<BR>install snd-via82xx
/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-via82xx && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :<BR>remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store
>/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove
snd-via82xx<BR>alias usb-controller ehci-hcd<BR>alias usb-controller1
uhci-hcd<BR><BR># ivtv modules setup<BR>alias char-major-81 videodev<BR>alias
char-major-81-0 ivtv<BR>install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv;
/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb<BR><BR>install lirc_i2c /sbin/modprobe ivtv;
/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install lirc_i2c<BR><BR></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>