I’ve been maintaining a PVR350 on an old Dell 2.4GHz since forever. Latest updates (to MythTV 24.1, and licrd 0.9.0.7) have made big changes. But it’s all working again, including a serial IR blaster. The following is just for my easy reference, and anyone else who now finds their Grey Hauppauge remote control is emitting [...]
Aim : Use 1 computer for two tasks : a) Desktop for GF to use as a regular linux machine (web browsing, photos, etc)b) Completely independent MythTV set-up, with the output going to the TV. Also, the set-up has to be turn-key, with both sessions logging in automatically (goodbye gdm ). There’s a lot going [...]
After upgrading to FC9, the previously working serial port channel-changer (bought from IRblaster.info) stopped working. None of the configuration had changed. In addition to the serial port transmitter, there’s a receiver on the PVR350 card – handled by lirc_i2c After much searching, an additional option came to light : softcarrier=1 . Here are the relevant [...]
Email me for the gory details (for FC7) – but see a more up-to-date post for the same thing (much cleaner) in Fedora 9.
The Situation I have a Hauppauge PVR350 card, which includes an IR receiver (connected via a 2.5mm socket on the card), but I also need to control an external cable box via an IR blaster (bought from irblaster.info), and have COM1 free. Actually, since I have a Belkin MediaPilot keyboard (mostly) working, I won’t need [...]
Upgrade to 2.6.22 seems to break *everything* in the ivtv suite. It all disappeared from the rpms, so we need to install from source. ivtv ivtv-fb ivtv-xdriver ivtvfbctl (now gone) In particular, some web posts indicate that support for the PVR-350 has been eliminated somehow. This doesn’t seem to be completely true – but maybe [...]
Aim : Enable a lightly used Linux machine to additionally host a MythTV video card. Major Issues : Upgrade to 2.6.22 breaks *everything* : ivtv ivtv-fb ivtv-xdriver ivtvfb-ctl (now gone) Want to have two independent displays (two simultaneous X servers running) Complex /etc/X11/xorg.conf Need to use evdev to have dual keyboards Toy with /etc/gdm/custom.conf (not [...]