It's taken me almost a week now, but it's fully operational. This is a stock Compaq with 128Meg of RAM. I purchased a new PVR-350 on-line with the idea that I could use it's TV-Out since the Compaq doesn't have one nativly and I didn't really want to purchase two cards. Much of what I had to do was because of the brand new PVR-350. The older ones don't seem to be as much trouble. I'm using a Nyko Airflow EX USB gamepad for xmame.
Below are links to all of the posts that I used to get this operational. To date I have tested: TV-Out, Remote, xmame, recording while watching a recorded.
I suspect that this install would work for just about any computer using only a PVR-350 for TV-Out.
READ ALL OF THE POSTS I REFERENCE. IN MANY CASES THERE ARE POSTS AT THE END OR MIDDLE WERE YOU CAN FIND THE GOOD INFORMATION.
Note: When running update-modules I get the following error, but everything seems to work just fine so I'm not going to worry about it.
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-chw/kernel/drivers/media/video/cx25840.o
1. Start here and get the initial stuff installled and operational. I moved to the next post once I could see and hear live TV on my monitor. When selecting a tuner I used
44. I have a card address of
0:0x0a:0.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2524&highlight=pvr+350
2. At this point you need to get TV-Out working, so go to this post. It's primarily about getting a
Green and Purple Screen Fixed, but it has the whole TV-Out procedure in it. You can get the funny screen because we need a newer driver for the 350 than comes with R4V5. I had to use
"output_select=1" to get anything on the screen either Composite or S-Video. That is written somewhere in the posts, but I thought I would point it out. I think it has to do with the new card, but I could be wrong.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2995&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
3. You need to turn on hardware decoding now and I used several sections of this post. When I refer to a "section 4" below it meens from this post I'm going to send you to.
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=HauppaugeThreeFiftyInstallation
Use number section 5 to turn it on hardware decoding so the video is smokin fast.
4. Use section 5 to fix your TV screen if it's black (or use us the link below)
4.1 Options 2 for Black Screen after hardware decode.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=697
5. Use section 6 to fix your sound once you are using the 350 hardware TV-Out
Note: Run this as mythtv user, not root or the changes are not saved correctly (that was a sad moment for me). You can check when you are done that the settings were saved in /home/mythtv/.aumixrc
6. Turn the "mic" all the way up in aumix (run this while in X it's much cooler than in cli).
6.1 I ended up adding this line to the file /home/mythtv/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc because it just wasn't getting loaded when I rebooted.
exec aumix -m 100 -v 100
7. In mythtv Be sure to change it to "master" in Setup, Setup, General, Mixer Control. If you don't then you can't make changes to the TV sound level with your new working remote when we turn it on later.
Ok, now that you can watch TV (I hope) on the TV.
8. Let's fix the remote.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3092&sid=ff17b622e49edce36c31386cfc9e27be
Note: If you are copying files from your windows box, be sure to "man dos2unix" if you are getting errors on the file format.
9. Now we'll get MAME working.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2518&highlight=
10. NEW Stuff Get your joystick working. All I had to do was the following:
a. edit /etc/modules.
b. add the line "joydev" to the end of the file
c. run update-modules
d. reboot
To test you can use "cat < /dev/input/js0" If you get the message, no device (or something like that) your joystick isn't working yet.
If you get junk on your screen while hitting buttons/moving stuff on the joystick, then you're golden. Now just "jstest /dev/input/js0" to make sure it's seeing everything right.
I had to use "-joytype 5" in my command line script to make xmame recognise it. This is using the SDL compiled xmame, not x11.
11. And a few more things to do at the end. Read the last 12 or so paragraphs here for some good extra info on setting time, samba, nfs, etc.
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/?id=KnoppMythInstall
12. New Make is so you can view recordings from another computer web browser.
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=14239#14239
13. New If you are a windows person go here so some possible viewing of mythtv files.
http://dsmyth.sourceforge.net/
Thanks it. Hope it's all working for ya. Thanks to everyone that has provided this information I have referenced, and to the developers of Mythtv and especially KnoppMyth!
-Lane