Hi everybody!
Ok, prehaps that is somewhat of an overstatement - that is having 9,999 problems with linux. But I do have several problems with some of my hardware. I'm trying here BTW I'm new around here (smiles and waves!). I am kinda at a dead loss to know what to do really.
My main problem is with Mandrake linux on one of my systems (I do have trouble with a travan tape streamer too but I'll leave that for another time).
In that system I have an old ATI All in wonder video card (it can do video capture, and TV out) - it has 8 MB on board memory. I've tried using the GATOS drivers to make the capture side work (the display on the monitor connected to the PC, a 19" SVGA monitor) works fine. But no so for video capture. Firstly am I starting up the driver correctly. I usually do this:
(as root)
modprobe videodev
Then I run (I've already compiled it, it did scucceed in compilng but listed lots of errors) "kv", by following the instructions by typing "make test". If I don't do the modprobe thingy above however the kv driver dosen't work properly and crashes with an error. I'm guessing this has something to do with /dev/video and /dev/video0.
After doing that I then go ahead and run avview (I also had to compile and install tcl and tk - I noticed that when I ran avview it crashed, I had to copy the .so files tcl and tk made into the /lib directory manually). But avview ran and I could watch TV ok. The problems come when I try to do video capture.
Trying to do video captrue in any mode above 1024x768 results in a total system lockup. And I mean total as well - the mouse pointer stops dead, I can't type - the whole thing freezes up. Ironically the only thing that does keep going is the TV display window of avview. If I use lower than 1024x768 avview thinks "kv" isn't loaded for some reason.
Also, I have a problem with ALSA which is needed (I thought mandrake 9.1 installed this and the drivers?!) however I suspect that my SB Live audigy card might not be supported by ALSA. So (and the last thing I've tried) is a complete reinstall and changed the SB card for my old Terratec 16/95 ISA sound card (I'm guessing that will work with ISA). But I've come across another problem - the system hangs at boot when I use it, I get the screen to load up Mandrake but that's as far as it gets.
Can anyone help? Has anyone else had these weird problems?
Urg....
SP