Hi,

I have a problem with operating Xawtv package under kernel 2.4.22 distro: Slackware 9.1.

Tv card (Winfast PVR) is properly installed and i got it to work just fine (without sound). After i tried to enable sound something went wrong and after i opened XAWTV my cpu blinked and system had restarted itself. Now , happens everytime i try to run XAWTV. (xawtv was recompiled, even so, does not work)

Lsmod shows:

bttv 94432 0
msp3400 16396 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tuner 10272 1 (autoclean)
i2c-algo-bit 6984 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 12740 0 [bttv msp3400 tuner i2c-algo-bit]
soundcore 3332 6 [snd bttv]
videodev 5664 3 [bttv]

modules.conf entries:

alias char-major-81 bttv
alias video bttv
options i2c scan=1
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner ; modprobe -k msp3400
options tuner debug=1 type=5
options bttv card=34 radio=0

so, can someone help me with this ? I'd really appreciated.


cubEE.

Try "tvtime".
I am having probs getting any video with my leadtek card.

Yeah, i did try tvtime, and it works just fine. Thanks.

do you mind helping me out a bit.

I can get my card to work on an old linux box of mine, but I cant get it to work on my new box, which is where I want it.

Can you tell me what your options are in tvtime as fas as input configuration? Meaning, do you see tv on composite0,1 Television?
Also do you have an Svideo option on that as well?

Can you also post your dmesg, lspci, lsmod, and any other relevant info. And if you dont mind, can you give your .config file form your kernel rebuild?

thanks. I have been trying for 2 weeks and am about to give up.

I also have a leadtek card and it wont work right out of the box. What happens is that the bttv driver detects the card but using the wrong tuner. Most likely it tries to use a pal tv tuner, I think type=5, but really it should be using type=2 which is for ntsc.

All I do is put in my hotplug blacklist both bttv and tuner. Then in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules put in:
/sbin/modprobe tuner type=2
/sbin/modprobe bttv card=34

what this does is ban hotplug from autoloading the driver and then rc.modules will load up the modules using the appropriate options.

Hi,

I'm seeing picture on TELEVISION input
settings: PAL, freq: Europe or Custom (after running tvtime-scanner)
Never tried to use Svideo though, dont need it..

About kernel. There was no need to rebuild it.

dmesg:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered.
bttv: driver version 0.7.107 loaded
bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture
bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0c.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xee001000
bttv0: detected: Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 [card=34], PCI subsystem ID is 107d:6606
bttv0: using: BT878(Leadtek WinFast 2000/ W) [card=34,insmod option]
tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
tuner(bttv): type forced to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles)) [insmod]
i2c-core.o: client [Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and comp] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
bttv0: using tuner=5
tuner: type already set (5)
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: registered device radio0

lspci:

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

lsmod:

bttv 94432 0
msp3400 16396 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tuner 10272 1 (autoclean)
i2c-algo-bit 6984 1 [bttv]
i2c-core 12740 0 [bttv msp3400 tuner i2c-algo-bit]
soundcore 3332 6 [snd bttv]
videodev 5664 3 [bttv]



My entries in modules.conf

alias char-major-81 bttv
alias video bttv
options i2c scan=1
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner ; modprobe -k msp3400
options tuner debug=1 type=5
options bttv card=34 radio=0

on more thing bruce1271

i can email you .config file. Drop me an email at biuro@certech.com.pl