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Originally posted by Harishankar Thanks for the suggestion HappyTux, but the problem still exists when I use
xawtv -device /dev/video0
The screen still blanks out. The monitor loses signal.
And the card gets detected properly as well? You should see output like when you use dmesg in a console/console window.
Code:
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
bttv0: Bt848 (rev 18) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 9, latency: 64, mmio: 0xdcdff000
bttv0: using: Zoltrix TV-Max [card=15,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00ffebff [init]
bttv0: using tuner=6
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt848 #0 [sw]
tuner: type set to 6 (Temic NTSC (4032 FY5)) by bt848 #0 [sw]
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
Originally posted by Harishankar Here the output of lspci:
01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
01:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4150
03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4170[/CODE]
The dmesg output is too big to post here. Please tell me which portion of the output is relevant, so that I can post it here.
We would need to see the part of the dmesg where the card gets detected to see if it is done properly the output would be similar to what I have posted above for my card. BTW which card do you have anyways a quick google search leads to this page here on the site in the HCL which suggest it is a Pinnacle PCTV and it should be getting detected as card number 39 according to the CARDLIST.bttv that I have printed out here from when I was searching for a compatible card to buy. I see that a couple of the posters there are from India also you may want to personal message them and see if they can give you any help getting it going. Also another google search lead to the HCL as well and seems to suggest that you have a 9600 pro from ATI is this so?
I see nothing in there to indicate a TV card getting detected at all. Try modprobe bttv then use dmesg again and paste the output of when the driver loads and detects the card.
Ok that is getting detected as the pinnacle I mentioned a couple of posts back now what does it show you if you use scantv in a console window?
Edit: I notice that it is using driver version 0.7.xx (I am 0.9.15 with kernel 2.6.8.1) using with the 2.4.22 kernel you are using you may want to consider upgrading the kernel to get the latest driver support or going to http://bytesex.org/bttv/ and getting the latest driver I found this here on the site in this thread. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/41357
I did a 'scantv -a -o xawtvrc' yesterday and it took about 20 minutes to run.
Here's part of the output.
Code:
0: us-bcast
1: us-cable
2: us-cable-hrc
3: japan-bcast
4: japan-cable
5: europe-west
6: europe-east
7: italy
8: newzealand
9: australia
10: ireland
11: france
12: china-bcast
13: southafrica
14: argentina
15: australia-optus
16: russia
nr ?
[global]
freqtab = us-bcast
[defaults]
input = Television
norm = PAL
scanning freqencies...
?? 44.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 44.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 44.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 44.75 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.75 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.75 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.75 MHz (- ): | no
.
.
.
I have to use scantv -a because my country is not listed on the frequency tables list.
The whole output would be really too long to post here. At the end though, the detected frequencies did not get added to the config file and I don't know why.
Originally posted by HappyTux Ok that is getting detected as the pinnacle I mentioned a couple of posts back now what does it show you if you use scantv in a console window?
Edit: I notice that it is using driver version 0.7.xx (I am 0.9.15 with kernel 2.6.8.1) using with the 2.4.22 kernel you are using you may want to consider upgrading the kernel to get the latest driver support or going to http://bytesex.org/bttv/ and getting the latest driver I found this here on the site in this thread. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/41357
Thanks for that website . Which files do I download?
Originally posted by Harishankar I did a 'scantv -a -o xawtvrc' yesterday and it took about 20 minutes to run.
Here's part of the output.
Code:
0: us-bcast
1: us-cable
2: us-cable-hrc
3: japan-bcast
4: japan-cable
5: europe-west
6: europe-east
7: italy
8: newzealand
9: australia
10: ireland
11: france
12: china-bcast
13: southafrica
14: argentina
15: australia-optus
16: russia
nr ?
[global]
freqtab = us-bcast
[defaults]
input = Television
norm = PAL
scanning freqencies...
?? 44.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 44.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 44.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 44.75 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 45.75 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 46.75 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.00 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.25 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.50 MHz (- ): | no
?? 47.75 MHz (- ): | no
.
.
.
I have to use scantv -a because my country is not listed on the frequency tables list.
The whole output would be really too long to post here. At the end though, the detected frequencies did not get added to the config file and I don't know why.
Do you still have that part saved so you can post it? And I can see one thing wrong in your settings you have us-bcast and norm=PAL for a US broadcast signal it should be norm=NTSC. BTW what is the broadcast standard used in India? You need that information for sure to get it going properly and have you tried to contact the two people from India in the link to the card that I posted above they should have more information than I can give you that is if they are accepting personal messages. I read that bytesex.org page again and it appears that you should have the version that is available there for the 0.7.x already in the kernel support sorry for the misleading information. You may want to try using you video card without the ati drivers and see if this will help as well and maybe even upgrade to the latest 2.6 kernel you can get for the newest support for the bttv module possible.
The broadcast standard used in India is PAL not NTSC.
And I had no idea which frequency table to choose because India is not listed.
I thought that using scantv -a would override the default option. Unfortunately I had not saved the full output of scantv because the output would fill upto twenty or thirty pages.
Edit: I will try and update the drivers for bttv. Thanks for all your help, HappyTux. I'll keep you informed of developments on this thread.
Last edited by vharishankar; 10-02-2004 at 11:50 PM.
Originally posted by Harishankar The broadcast standard used in India is PAL not NTSC.
And I had no idea which frequency table to choose because India is not listed.
I thought that using scantv -a would override the default option. Unfortunately I had not saved the full output of scantv because the output would fill upto twenty or thirty pages.
Edit: I will try and update the drivers for bttv. Thanks for all your help, HappyTux. I'll keep you informed of developments on this thread.
Your welcome and in that case you definitely do not want the us-bcast in the file then that is NTSC only. I would try when you run the scan tv using all the options except the us ones with PAL as the standard and see if one of the other countries is close enough to your standard to work with the card.
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xawtv blanking out the screen
. Which files do I download?
