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Hi
I have a Pinnancle systems PCTV Plus Indian Edition. This card uses Conexant CN878 chip. There seem to be no driver available for this chip for Linux.
So i tried instaling bttv drivers and front end as xawtv on Red Hat 8.0 (whose GUI sucks big time). It gives me the error saying that some libraries are missing for example:
liblirc_client.so.0 and libpanel_applet.so.0 were missing. So could not even install it.
Please give a way so that i can make my Tv tuner card work on Linux.
Last edited by madman_rocks; 02-01-2003 at 10:14 AM.
well install these other files. not that you need them really, you'd be fine to force the rpm installation erally, but just go to rpmfind.net and search for those files. you 're card is supported fully by bttv, it is THE correct driver.
and btw the GUI doesn't suck... how can a plain window suck? just press hotkeys and you're fine...
The Xaw Tv is installed properly but i am not able to view any channels.
$ dmesg gives in the output that the frequency was out of range. Moreover could not find PAL-BG any where.
Settings in the .xawtv done are :
[global]
freqtab= pal-europe // that is what pcquest magazine says
[defaults]
source=television
norm=pal // Here there is no pal-bg option.
Fine, i have changed the table too tried every option given. Also changed source to input = Television
Still it does not make any difference. Moreover that magazine is one of the most reputed computer magazines in India supporting Linux in a big way. Gives solutions to problems faced in Linux.
Last edited by madman_rocks; 02-02-2003 at 01:43 AM.
i doubt that the card itself is causing any problems really. the ONLY thing i have relevant to tv cards in my modules.conf is:
alias char-major-81 bttv
nothing else no mention of videodev or anything, but then i'm using a wintvgo which is more general as far as configuration goes. there was another pinacle card listed in teh docs, number 52 i think...?
I figured out one thing with the help of one of the friends that there is a file tuner.c in the linux src code. This file has a function called set_tv_freq that is giving the output as "TV freq out of range".
Now when i had windows this was getting set without any trouble and then when i logged into mandrake it only showed me the last channel. So this function was setting only the last freq known that is very strange (Have to look at it in more detail). But since i do not have any Windows on my box so the freq is not getting set correctly.
But i do not know how to rectify this problem ????
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