First, i'm posting a link to the Slackware Linux and MythTV HOW-TO that i've been working on.  It still needs some work, but hopefully it will benefit someone.  First it gives an overview on installing Slackware linux in preparation for MythTV.  Then it walks you thorugh installing and setting up MythTV and its components.  Its written for PVR-250 and PVR-350 users.  I'm not a linux guru, so there are probably things in there that would make die hard linux users cringe, but it should help people that are new to linux as well as new to mythTV.  Afterall the diehard linux fans shouldn't need the guide.  Anyway, here's the link:

http://home.comcast.net/~homebrewracing/Mythtv.txt

Also i have some links to modified IVTV drivers for PVR-350 users so that the tv-out is more stable when displaying the MythTV OSD.  These versions of the modified drivers by Chris Kennedy have worked good for me.  I can't guarentee they'll work for everyone, but they seem to fix problems for me that were common amonst PVR-350 users.  

 http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck63p.tgz
I've been using this one up until today.  Worked great, instead if freezing occasionally during FFWD's and REW's the screen goes green for a second tthen returns.  Not ideal,  I realize, but a great improvement.  No more lock ups.  

 http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck69l.tgz
This one i downloaded today to try based on my readings.  Has worked good so far, but i'd say give me few more days to test it.  

I'm not an expert regarding how these drivers work or which ones work the best, i'm just giving my experience with them.  It seems to me that each number series, for instance 70, are relatively the same with slight changes.  Major changes to the driver normally occur on a new number.  Therefore, all of the 70's should perform very similar, ie if 70f locks up for you, they all probably will.  Again, i dont know if that is fact or not, just seems to be a pattern in my limited experience.  With this in mind, i had freezing problems with 70j, so i wouldn't recommend trying any of the ck70? drivers.  Also, just because the driver is newer with a higher number, doesn't mean its better.  Thats why i'm working with 69l right now instead of say 75a.  The guy working on it makes various changes, some work, some don't.   I try to follow the threads on the IVTV mailing list as best i can to make decisions on which version to try next.  You can follow the threads here:

 http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/current/threads.html


You can find all of Chris Kennedy's IVTV driver versions here:

 http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/


Again i'm no expert on any of the subjects mentioned.  Just trying to help others out with the experience i've had so far.   Hopefully someone will benefit from this.

-Kevin

GJ Kevin/homebrew... appreciate you taking the time/effort to document your steps along the way and willingness to share info re: ivtv driver revisions..

Is it ok if I "mirror" a copy of the how to locally here?

rampy

Oh no prob... Well I posted a copy here
...  after spending some time looking at it more thoroughly (trying to format it -- i'll be hyperlinking some stuff later) I must say you must have worked very hard  :casstet:  at making the document (and getting mythtv to work on your distro/box) :P  

Thanks again for taking the time to do it.  I realize it takes a lot of effort and commitment to contributeto teh community to put that together.  I don't think I realized when I first skimmed it, how long and detailed/involved it was =)

once again, good job...

rampy

Well I saw this site and figured I'd give it a shot.  Here is my problem, I installed the mythtv package and got it running but I am having a problem running mythfilldatabase and mythbackend.  Keeps telling me I might need to change my master ip settings to get the backend running correctly.  my comp is behind a linksys router, not sure if that makes a difference.  Any help would be great.