TV on Slackware 10.1
 

I installed Slackware 10.1 on some computer with Pinnacle TV card. I have an cable TV and I tray quite a few programs for watching TV, but no one working. (kdetv,fftv...).
The kernel is default, kde 3.3.

What s wrong?

thanks
klemen

not sure what all the default kernel has...
you might need to recompile with support for
video for linux and your pinnacle card

Also, you must be a member of the 'video' group to access the TV card.

Just add your username against 'video' in /etc/group to do this.

If you still can't get TV, we'll need to know the model of the TV card (you might also be able to Google that to see if the chip it uses is supported in Linux, and we can also check to see if you need to just load a separate module.)

you'll need modules for your card and i think also for the i2c-interface.
i think they are all there in the standard module tree.

first take a look at the output of "#lspci ".
how is your card recognised ?

then look fo the needed modules in /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/media and --/i2c.
modprobe what you need.

try a tv-player again.
( maybe xawtv is ok )

i have a miro pctv-card and the following modules are loaded :
i2c_viapro 6028 0
tuner 19364 0
tvaudio 20768 0
bttv 147084 1
video_buf 16964 1 bttv
firmware_class 7552 1 bttv
v4l2_common 4864 1 bttv
btcx_risc 3784 1 bttv
videodev 7040 2 bttv

but i use a 2.6.9 kernel.
the 2.4.29 kernel has no v4l i think.

need any further help, just post the output of #lspci ?

egag

I add user to video
when I tipe
root@localhost:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 745 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation: Unknown device 00e7 (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 31)
00:0c.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 61)
00:0c.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 61)
00:0c.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 62)
00:0d.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:0d.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
root@localhost:~#

But i have pinnacle card, which tv player do you recommend?

take a look at $lsmod.

do you see a driver in the list named " bttv " ?
if not, enter as root : " #modprobe bttv "

look again with lsmod if it's loaded and if you see " i2c---<something > " in the list.

if so, try a tv-player.

egag

OK, I see all of those things, but I uninstall tv player, which do you recommend to install?

here xawtv is allways working.
try that one to start.

you can get a Slackware package here.

http://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/linuxpack...-9/pcxz/xawtv/

download it and install it with " #installpkg xawtx-------etc.tgz "

then type " $xawtv in a console and look at the messages when it starts,

egag

I tray to install it with pkgtool but I get
xawtv: error while loading shared libraries: liblirc_client.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

?????

I tray the last version and get

oot@localhost:~# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.29)
dlopen: libdv.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dlopen: libdv.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOCCAPTURE(int=1): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOCCAPTURE(int=0): Invalid argument


The program opend but i can-t get chanells search....

ah.....that.s nogood.
i think you better compile it from source ( wish i said that in the first place )

first remove the other package with #removepkg <pack-name without .tgz )

get the sources here :

http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/xawtv/

( take 3.94 )

put it in your home dir.

extract it with "$tar xvzf xawtv-3.94.tar.gz "

a directory named xawtv-3.94 will be made with the source code in it.
goto that dir.
" $cd xawtv-3.94"

run the following commands :

$./configure ( don't forget the ./ )
$make

and as root

#make install

when all is well, type xawtx in a console.

egag

Use tvtime
 

The software tvtime is a million times better than xawtv and the slack package is great you can get it here:


TV time from linuxpackages.net

Also read the bttv how to here:

BTTV howto from tldp.org

The howto contains all the details to get a BTTV tuner card to work in linux. It is a great guide! I am assuming your card is some sort of BTTV card?

well...i know. i use kdetv myself, but that ( and tvtime ) need some adjusting to get a picture.
xawtx gives a picture right away, and is IMO easy to search channels with.
both other prog.'s do a bad job on that
i just import the xawtv channel file in kdetv..

egag

I find tvtime very easy to setup
-F1 to bring the menu up
-Pick "Channel management"
-Pick "Scan Channels for signal"

And watch it find all your stations. That is all I had to do to configure tv time. I am running tvtime version 0.9.15. No offense egag I just find tvtime better than xawtv.

no offence taken eh... :)
i think i've adapted my setup method to my situation. ( rather a bad signal i think )
autoscan ( any program ) doesn't work for me.

so i have to find channels by hand, and like xawtv for that.
the channel-file i can use in kdetv.

but still, i had to adjust kdetv to get a picture , and xawtv gave a picture right away.
so i thought, just to see if all hardware and modules are working ,use xawtv.

egag