HI. I'm having trouble with the card mentioned above. Here is the problem :

I'm getting only a black screen on overlay when I run xawtv. This is the output of v4l-conf :

map: vt01 => fb0
v4l-conf: using framebuffer device /dev/fb0
can handle only packed pixel frame buffers

This is the output of xawtv :

sh-2.05a$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18)
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>")
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOCCAPTURE(on): Invalid argument

Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? HOw can I get this card to work? I'm not actually sure there's a signal coming into the card, but I hear the screen should be blue if that is the case. Thanks in advance.

well what did v4l-conf say?

dga should be enabled by default, you'd have to specifically turn it off normally. is it listed in XF86config (look for 'option "omit xfree86-dga"') and as for the framebuffer... are you booting to a framebuffer (i.e. logo in top corener of screen on boot) ? try running fbtv outside of X aswell, see if that gets any further

sh-2.05a$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18)
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" to type FontStruct
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".


Is the output of xawtv after I ommited that line, thanks acid. I now get some static at the top of the box, the rest is black. THe ouput of v4l-conf is the same though (see first post). I haven't tried to run fbtv in X, I"ve been running it on a (real) console. As for booting into a framebuffer (the logo at the top-left) I can't remember ( it used to, but then I changed some monitor settings and now I can't remember - would it help if I rebooted to give a definite answer on that?). Thanks for the help thus far.

right, so fbtv DOES work outside of X? now you'er getting GL errors, have you got the GLX extension loading in your XF86Config?

no, fbtv gives me the same messages as v4l-conf, except it tells me that it's using a linux console font.

GLX was commented in XF86Config. I uncommented the line and restarted X. Here is xawtv's output :

sh-2.05a$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18)
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-*" to type FontStruct


still static at the top, the rest is black. v4l-conf still says the same stuff.

well, not a clue about the ont problems, thoguht waxtv brought all it's fonts with it... anyway, surely you just need to tune the bugger in now no? make sure its selecting the right input source and you should be able to tun it in. you have got the card set up in modules.conf i presume. my wintvgo entry says:

alias char-major-81 bttv

and nothing else. you can add various options to explicitly state the card type, but it's such a generic card it shoudln't really need it.

This is what I found somewhere for my modules.conf :

## TV Card
alias char-major-89 i2c
options i2c i2c_debug=0 verbose=1 scan=1
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=6 radio=0
options tuner debug=0 type=6
options msp3400

It's still giving static, but I feel alot better about it now that there are less errors. I think if I get the v4l-conf thing figured out it'll be okay.

well i'd try knocking out ALL of tha and just using that line i have in mine, i don't even have any i2c lines.., and it worked first time.

well, I removed all the extra crap, put that line in, rmmod'ed all the related modules then ran depmod -a and finnally modprobe bttv. Everything was re-loaded and so I went back to try xawtv. It didn't really change things . Though I am glad my modules.conf isn't so huge.

acid_kewpie,

thanks for your help. After struggling for a while I finnaly got a (staticy) channel 5. A BIG improvement. I don't know why the stations won't come in clear though. Would having digital cable have anything to do with it (I have it hooked up AFTER the cable box)?