First off let me say I'm really liking R5D1 so far. My D-Link DUB-E100 USB ethernet adapter now works without having to manually run "ifup" everytime the system starts. Quite a few other small annoyances seem to have been fixed as well.

However, I'm having an interesting problem with the TV-out on my PVR-350. I go through the install process and in the second phase of the installation, it asks if I want to configure TV-out on the 350. I answer yes and it generates the new XF86Config-4. When the installer finishes, GDM restarts and the frontend comes up on the PVR-350's TV-out. Watching live TV, recorded TV, Divx, etc. all works and everything appears to be in order.

But...

After rebooting, X refuses to start and gives the following error message:

(EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device (null)
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
(EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.

I did 'lsmod' and noticed that the ivtv-fb module had not loaded so as root, I did 'modprobe ivtv-fb'. Now the module appeared to be loaded but restarting GDM gave the same error as before.

I'm confident this can't be anything big since it does work the first time around, just not on subsequent reboots.

Any suggestions?


Here is my XF86Config-4 for reference:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "TV Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6
# Serial Mouse not detected
InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"

EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "drm"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Serial Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

# Auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
HorizSync 30-68
VertRefresh 50-120
Mode "720x480"
# D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
DotClock 34.564
HTimings 720 752 840 928
VTimings 480 484 488 504
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
Driver "ivtvdev"

### change fb0 to whatever number you got in the previous section
Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "XVideo" "1"

### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that
### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID
BusID "PCI:0:20:0"

Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "TV Screen"
Device "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
Monitor "NTSC Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
DefaultFbbpp 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
FbBpp 32
Modes "720x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

not sure if i get the same error because im not home right now but same exact thing happens to me .

This happend to me tonight too, still looking for the solution.

This also happened to me when I did a clean install of R5D1. Did you fellas come up with a solution?

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Me too. Nice to know it's probably not something I've done.

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Same here. Any thoughts?

No changes here. Still having the same problem with the same error message. I'm drawing a complete blank here. The driver itself would seem to be okay because it works the first time through. This suggests to me that perhaps there's some little trick about the order things need to be loaded in (?). I considered re-compiling ivtv but once again, since everything works at first, I would say that means the actual driver isn't the problem. There's some other little 'gotcha' at work here. This is the first time I've ever had a problem with the 350 I couldn't figure out myself.

Hopefully someone reading will have a bright idea for a fix to this soon.


P.S. On a positive note, I was happy to discover that the audio level when recording is back up to a reasonable volume after being way too low in the past few ivtv releases...

mjl is looking into this. It seems to be frame buffer related. Did any of you enable bootsplash? That doesn't tend to play well with the pvr-350s framebuffer.

yeah, i always say no to bootsplash because of the problem, so it's not that.

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I enabled bootsplash and actually I always do. It hasn't given me any trouble before. I did three or four installs, a couple with bootsplash and a couple without. Same problem each time.

yeah me 2 same problem works first off then Xfails to load.
heres the tail of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log

(II) LoadModule: "ivtvdev"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
(II) Module ivtv: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 0.10.6
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.5.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.5
(II) IVTVDEV_TST: driver for framebuffer: PVR-350
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(--) Chipset PVR-350 found
(EE) ivtvHWProvbe failed to do IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE for device (null)
(EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
(EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.

one thing I notice is PCI 01:00:0 isnt my PVR350 is at PCI 00:06:0 and it set to that in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
and I also got no /dev/fb0 tried to make one with MAKEDEV in the /dev directory there shoule be a framebuffer device right?

This was a upgrade not a install the upgrade always seem to work ok..

same here...

i'm not seeing the ivtv-fb module getting loaded in /var/log/messages after boot. The first boot after the upgrade loaded it, though. I can manually run '/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb', though, and it loads fine.

-Joe

EDIT: I just test loaded the ivtv-fb module manually and then restarting gdm and can confirm that it works this way (i.e. X started up and the frontend is now showing on the TV). Now, I just need to figure out why the ivtv-fb module is not loading at boot by itself...

Ok. I was desperate... so i came up with this ugly hack:

edit your '/etc/init.d/gdm' file. add the following bits after:



(add this)



Do a reboot, and you should be back in progress...

(what this is doing is just forcing the load of ivtv-fb module before gdm starts up. I don't have time at the moment to keep digging and see why the "regular" configuration of loading the module is not working...)

-Joe

tried your hack. No errors but still nothin on my tv screen

would it help to put it at the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh? I think that is one of the last things to be ran before gdm starts...

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Athlon 2200 processor
512K Kingston PC2100 Memory
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Lite-on DVD cd-rw combo
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