MythTV port

[Hans Nieser]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:17:10 +1030
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday, 27 December 2006 at 18:37:04 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>>> AFAIK, the situation is like this: the MythTV port is created, but
>>> there are not many success reports yet. Perhaps because not a lot of
>>> people have tried it yet, or perhaps because the port has problems.
>> There's a good chance that both apply.
>>
>> As nominal maintainer, I should confess that I haven't found time to
>> try it out.  I'm more interested in doing it well than doing it
>> quickly, and I'll probably spend a lot of time ensuring that it
>> configures easily.  Any help I can get there is welcome.
>>
>> After that, I'll only be using it for playback, at least until we get
>> some DVB tuner support.
> 
> 
> Hello everyone, I've been following the mythv  threads for a while... I've got
> a Shuttle Zen ( model ST62K [1] ) P-4 3Ghz with a PVR-150 . It
> didn't use to work with 5.3 (UDMA disk access was a dud), but since then I
> tried it quickly with 6 and that issue was solved.
> 
> I'll be happy to try the mythv,etc , but I was wondering whether anyone knows
> the support status of the ATI TV-OUT port - the card is a ATI Radeon 9100, with
> Linux ATI drivers (binary  only)
> 
> Would those linux ATI drivers work if I installed the linux-Xorg port,
> instead of native? 
> 
> [1] http://global.shuttle.com/Product/barebone/brb_OverView.asp?B_id=29
> 

I've got the TV-out on my 9200 Pro (RV280) working with the patches at 
http://megahurts.dk/rune/tv_output.html and the guide at 
http://wiki.gcu.info/doku.php?id=bsd:xorg_ati_tvout (which is in French, 
but hopefully you can follow it by looking at the examples and commands 
like I did). I did not have to install any Linux stuff.

It was kindof tricky to get the TV-out to work because it only works with 
specific settings in my xorg.conf.

The relevant parts from my xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
         Identifier   "Monitor0"

         # TV-Out won't work with anything but VertRefresh 60, it seems:
         HorizSync   30.0 - 40.0
         VertRefresh 60
EndSection

Section "Device"
         Identifier  "Card0"
         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
         Driver      "ati"
         Option      "AGPMode" "8"

         # This option enables TV-output when using patches from
         # http://megahurts.dk/rune/tv_output.html :
         Option      "TVOutput" "PAL"
         #Option      "IgnoreEDID" "true"
         #Option      "MonitorLayout" "NONE, AUTO"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
         Identifier "Screen0"
         Device     "Card0"
         Monitor    "Monitor0"
         DefaultDepth     24
         SubSection "Display"
                 Viewport   0 0
                 Depth     24
                 Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
         EndSubSection
EndSection