Some light....

Finally, I managed to get the ivtv-fb to work and get a gdm display on it. It seems that the only way to get the ivtv framebufer to output a correct picture in PAL mode is to use the patched version made by Chris Kennedy. Get it from here . Silly me for not finding this wabpage sooner (http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=GentooHowTo)

Now, the challange is to get the remote to work. There are a lot of config files around for the remote that comes with the PVR-350 card, but so far I have not been able to get a signal.... everything loads ok though.