The following is an intial pass as a quick install guide for 350 card with TV out. I'll be cleaning up this entry once I have time to get back to my PVR box. Until then I hope this helps others from spending two days working on a configuration like I did.

• Grab a copy of KnoppixMyth.
  NOTE:
  You need at LEAST a 10 gig drive and any part of the drive that isn't used for the initial setup will be shoved into /myth partition.

• Select 2 (Auto Install)
• Set your Timezone (I use SysV style since I'm use to that style of naming)
• Set your time
• Set your user account full name
• Set your user login name
• Set your password
• Verify your password
• Set Root's Password
• Verify Root's Password
• Set Machine Name
• Accept the params if you typed them right.
• Accept the Warning about using the default partitioning

  [[ Wait while it mucks around with the drives and installs stuff ]]

• It will tell you that it is done and you should hit "OK"
• Pull the CD out and hit return

• It will boot into X and will prompt you for root's password. Enter it.
• Hit Ok
• Prompts for Time Zone again (stupid program)
• Prompts for DHCP (I use it, if you don't.. Can't help you =-)
• Select i586 or i686 respectively.. Some respects it doesn't matter you'll be redoing it anyways.
• Asks if you want to clear current configuration, say no (doesn't matter)
• Asks if you want to clear TV channel configuration, say no (doesn't matter)
• Go to "2. Capture Card"
• Select "New Capture Card"
• Arrow up to "Card Type" select "MPEG-2 Encoder card (PVR-250, PVR-350)
• If you don't see "Composite 0" show up.. the system didn't detect your card. Move it to another slot.
• Leave the rest and go back down to "Finish" and hit enter
• Hit escape
• Go to "3. Video Sources"
• Select "New Video Source"
• Configure this how you like.. Remember that "Data Direct" is also "Zap2It Labs" (Note: Point to Zap2It registration page)
• When done hit "Finish" then hit "escape"
• Select "4. Input Connections"
• Select "tuner 0"
• Populate the "Video Source" with the source you just defined.
• Go to "Finish" then hit escape.
• It will start downloading your channel information.. Wait.
• It will bring you to the main mythTV screen. Select "Watch TV" to ensure you are getting signal. If not redo the above steps.

• SSH into the box as root
• type "install-i686-l" or "install-i586-l" This will setup some of the stuff needed for your remote.
• type: update-rc.d lirc defaults (why I need this, who knows they just don't start it by default)
• Type reboot and next boot you should have your remote. (If not look at: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Hauppauge250Remote)

• Follow the following instructions: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=HauppaugeThreeFiftyInstallation
• The only change I'd make it when it says "lspci | grep MPEG" save yourself a few brain cells and type "lspci -X" so you don't have to convert hex.
• Frankly I hate normal diff.. This is a diff -u of the output:

  --- /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.pvr350-tvout.sample   2005-02-20 15:52:48.000000000 -0600
  +++ /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.pvr350        2005-10-03 18:05:22.000000000 -0500
  @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
   Section "ServerLayout"
           Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
           Screen  0 "TV Screen"
  -        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  +        InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
           InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
   EndSection
   
  @@ -107,14 +107,15 @@
   
   Section "Device"
           Identifier  "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
  -        Driver      "fbdev"
  +        Driver      "ivtvdev"
   
           ### change fb1 to whatever number you got in the previous section
           Option      "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
  +        Option      "ivtvdev" "/dev/fb1"
   
           ### 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 "0:0x08:0"
  +        BusID "PCI:0:13:0"
   EndSection
   
   Section "Screen"
  

• As well as in the Enable Hardware Playback step use "Bob (2x Framerate)"

• If it jerky I suggest looking at what IRQ you have it on and mucking around until you can get it to a better IRQ.

Last Updated: Oct 26, 2004