I have the following Tv applications installed on my slackware 12: kdetv,tvtime,xdtv.
and 2 Tvcards :a Lifeview (which shows up as TV CARD 7130,TV Card WDM TV TUNER,Manufacturer :Phillips) and a Hauppage Win TV 38105 Rev B211(which I riiped out of an old PC)

starting kdetv from GUI opens with the following error
"Unable to grab video.
Video display is not possible with the current plugin configuration. Try
playing with the configuration options of the V4L2 plugin."

switching between Tv tuners uder video brings the same error.
starting kdetv on the command line brings:

ALSA lib control.c:909snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL
kdetv: WARNING: **************** PluginFactory: Error loading library kdetv_telex*****************
kdetv: WARNING: Error: libzvbi.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
kdetv: WARNING: kdetv is likely to be crashing soon...
kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available

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xdtv just gives me a green screen,

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tvtime doens even start but gives me :

Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/jeff/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: souceforge.net
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.


About 18 months ago I tried Mandrake free 2005 with the lifeview card and it worked just fine.(but I had to abandon it as it didnt play mp3,mp4 or any of my videos.

any HELP with be HIGHLY APPRECIATED.


--------- part of dmesg output ----------------


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sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda:<6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55714 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xb800, 00:19:21:83:dc:3c, IRQ 21
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
i2c_algo_bit: exports duplicate symbol i2c_bit_add_bus (owned by kernel)
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
i2c_algo_bit: exports duplicate symbol i2c_bit_add_bus (owned by kernel)
bttv: driver version 0.9.17 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 0000:01:01.0, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xee3fe000
bttv0: detected: Hauppauge WinTV [card=10], PCI subsystem ID is 0070:13eb
bttv0: using: Hauppauge (bt878) [card=10,autodetected]
bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00fffffb [init]
bttv0: Hauppauge/Voodoo msp34xx: reset line init [5]
tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 38105, rev B211, serial# 1292596
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FI1246 MK2 (idx 11, type 1)
tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards PAL(I) (eeprom 0x10)
tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is None (idx 0)
tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom indicates model#38105
bttv0: using tuner=1
bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (bt878 #0 [sw])
tuner 0-0061: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and compatibles))
tuner 0-0061: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and compatibles))
bttv0: registered device video0
bttv0: registered device vbi0
bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:03.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
saa7130[0]: found at 0000:01:03.0, rev: 1, irq: 22, latency: 32, mmio: 0xfe5ffc00
saa7130[0]: subsystem: 4e42:0138, board: LifeView/Typhoon FlyVIDEO2000 [card=3,autodetected]
saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 39100
saa7130[0]: there are different flyvideo cards with different tuners
saa7130[0]: out there, you might have to use the tuner=<nr> insmod
saa7130[0]: option to override the default value.
input: saa7134 IR (LifeView/Typhoon Fl as /class/input/input2
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7130[0])
tuner 1-0061: type set to 37 (LG PAL (newer TAPC series))
tuner 1-0061: type set to 37 (LG PAL (newer TAPC series))
tuner 1-0063: chip found @ 0xc6 (saa7130[0])
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 42 4e 38 01 10 28 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
saa7130[0]: registered device video1 [v4l2]
saa7130[0]: registered device vbi1
saa7130[0]: registered device radio0
i2c_core: exports duplicate symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data (owned by kernel)
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
sd 2:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00070000
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
kobject_add failed for usb_storage with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
[<c03e86f7>] kobject_shadow_add+0x117/0x1a0
[<c013fba4>] mod_sysfs_setup+0x24/0xb0
[<c0141458>] sys_init_module+0x1648/0x1940
[<c0102ae8>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[<c0710000>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x40/0x90
=======================

... pick a card, any card...

... did you try this?

... did you enable YUY2 support for your cards?

Ridiculous, of course it did! You just needed the codecs.

So, I'm guessing you are using Slackware 12?

dmesg:
bttv found the Hauppauge, saa found the lifeview - but suggested you use an insmod option to get the right tuner. Did you do this?

Anyway, dmesg shows us:

So it would seem you have v4l2 installed OK - check the documentation for this. The cards are detected correctly and the correct drivers are assigned. This leaved the configuration steps.

Check which card each program is trying to use.

Have you tried mythTV?

Thanks for the reply.

Yes I am using Slackware 12.

actually the lifeviewcard is my main card its the 1 I tried first and so I thot maybe the card wasnt suppoted thats when i installed the hauppage WinTV card but it still shows the ssme stuff.

Yes I tried playing around with the V4L2 plugin settings (I tried various formats : jpeg,png... and the other numbers) but still nothing
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"... did you enable YUY2 support for your cards?"
how do you enable that ?
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"dmesg:
bttv found the Hauppauge, saa found the lifeview - but suggested you use an insmod option to get the right tuner. Did you do this?"
how do you do that also ?

Forgive me if my 2 questions are rediculously newbie (but that who I am , a NEWBIE) but I rally dont know how to do that ( I will surely research on that)

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"Ridiculous, of course it did! You just needed the codecs."
yes I also learnt that 3 months later about that and by then I had already burried my mandrake disks (am working on getting 2008 DVD PowerPack tho, hope it will play TV, music and videos right out of the box )

Thanks again

and yes I have Mythtv also but it doesnt work also

when i start it it asks for language i select my lingo , then it brings "no upnp backends found" i click ok it brings database-opsetting i click next , on the next screen I click nect again then it crushes X and takes me back to the kdm logon screen.

here is the out put when that it shows while it runs on the commandline

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jeff@darkstar:~/SLACKPACKS$ mythtv
2008-03-25 22:10:07.622 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local, libdir = /usr/local/lib
2008-03-25 22:10:07.794 DPMS is active.
2008-03-25 22:10:07.845 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-03-25 22:10:07.845 Using localhost value of darkstar
2008-03-25 22:10:07.967 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-03-25 22:10:07.988 Unable to connect to database!
2008-03-25 22:10:07.988 Driver error was [1/2002]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
2008-03-25 22:10:08.051 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError? Strange...
2008-03-25 22:10:08.106 QMulticastSocket: setsockopt - IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP Error
2008-03-25 22:10:08.107 QMulticastSocket: setsockopt - IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP Error
SSDP::PerformSearch - did not write entire buffer.
2008-03-25 22:10:08.213 QMulticastSocket: setsockopt - IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP Error
SSDP::PerformSearch - did not write entire buffer.
................................................................................
2008-03-25 22:10:10.249 UPnPautoconf() - No UPnP backends found
2008-03-25 22:10:10.249 No UPnP backends found
2008-03-25 22:10:10.256 max_width: 1024 max_height: 768
2008-03-25 22:10:10.257 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
2008-03-25 22:10:10.257 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2008-03-25 22:10:10.308 Switching to square mode (blue)
2008-03-25 22:10:10.482 Using the Qt painter
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: No such file or directory
2008-03-25 22:10:10.488 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2008-03-25 22:10:10.490 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/jeff/.mythtv/joystickmenurc
2008-03-25 22:11:13.936 DB Error (Clear setting):
Query was:

No error type from QSqlError? Strange...
2008-03-25 22:11:13.936 DB Error (SaveSettingOnHost query failure: ):
Query was:

No error type from QSqlError? Strange...
2008-03-25 22:11:13.941 DB Error (Clear setting):
Query was:

No error type from QSqlError? Strange...
2008-03-25 22:11:13.941 DB Error (SaveSettingOnHost query failure: ):
Query was:

No error type from QSqlError? Strange...
mythtv: Fatal IO error: client killed
mythtv: Fatal IO error: client killed

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the last 2 lines was when i was killing it with xkilll so i could get this report

sorry about making another post, i didnt see your question on mythtv before making th last post

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
... you don't have a mySQL database. This is probably the fatal error.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p...17feeaac0d000e

2008-03-25 22:10:10.249 No UPnP backends found
... UPnP = Universal Plug-n-Play.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/UPnP

Also do this with only one card installed. You main card should be fine:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134

thanks for the reply

I've already printed and am grinding thru the links you posted .
will stay up again tonight and try to put into action what they say (my slackbox is at home).
will get back to you tomorrow morning.

J

"Also do this with only one card installed. You main card should be fine:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134"

before Configuring kernel , making or installing modules

root@darkstar:/lib/modules/2.6.21.5# modprobe saa7134
WARNING: Error inserting i2c_core (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5-smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko): Invalid module format


root@darkstar:/lib/modules/2.6.21.5# modprobe saa7134 i2c_scan=1
WARNING: Error inserting i2c_core (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5-smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko): Invalid module format

after configuring , making and installing modules
same thing.

this post has similar question but doesnt get an answer:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ore...-568445/

same as this :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...meters-486280/

Early morning googling and This post:
http://justlinux.com/forum/archive/i.../t-136236.html
seems to suggest there is come issue with the kernel or the modeprobe command, so ive downloaded kernels : 2.6.24 and 2.6.18.1 will try them out during the weekend

Thanks

same thing , no matter which kernel .

am beggining too think its time to switch distros to a more newbie 1.

If you explicitly want a multimedia box, there are multimedia distros.

no exactly , I want more of a true Linux/Unix distro without the "shades and blinders" something I can use to learn Linux coz I will be taking some Linux+ course soon and I need something I can play with while at the same time something that I can Enjoy when I need to unwind.
thats why I choose slack , I got it to play play all my media files ( mp3,mp4,wma,avi...) only problem is TV so it wud be a shame to throw it away (thats why am giving it every inch to impress me B4 I give it the boot).

am still stuck with
"WARNING: Error inserting i2c_core (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5-smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko): Invalid module format" tho

sorry for the late reply by the way , schools been giving me good run-around.

thanks

J

Hello ,
I made some progress and I thot I wud report.
to get over the

"WARNING: Error inserting i2c_core (/lib/modules/2.6.21.5-smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.ko): Invalid module format"

I installed the generic kernel. turns out the kernel I was using has all modules baked in so there was no need to modprobe some into it.

othot i still have the same Tv problem , othot this time I can scan , get channels and even tune into them problem now is the screen is black all the time. and of course the

"Unable to grab video.
Video display is not possible with the current plugin configuration. Try
playing with the configuration options of the V4L plugin."

with kdetv is still there.

and

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.

with tvtime is also still there

earlier research suggests that I should change select "sis" in my xorg.conf or change video cards . will try that and also try using my nVIDIA card get report back tomorrow.

in the meantime any will be HIGHLY APPRECIATTED

thanx

J

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147265
... looks like you.

Hello,

Thanx for reply sorry i took long to get back.

Anyway I solved it . tvtime,xawtv and xdtv all work.

After Going thru the Slackbook,Going over the intel linux setup page for my VGA card ,Googling for 11 hours straight,trio and error, and most painfull (Intsalling Slackware 12, 7 times and Mandriva PowerPack 3 times , on the same machine in 1 day )
Here is what I changed in my xorg.conf in my graphics card section.

Section "Device"
Identifier "82865G"
Driver "intel"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "XVideo" "true"
#VideoRam 65536
Option "DRI" "true"

EndSection

NOTE: be sure to change the name of the graphics card name under the screen section to "82865G" too unless you want to learn the hardway (like me, LOL)

And my VGA is an intergrated intel 82865G by the way not sis as i assumed in last post

kdetv tv still has problems it only brings sound when i select v4l as under video but no picture v4l2 gives me nothing no picture and no sound and still the error message "cant capture video...(whatever, whatever )...try playing with you v4l2 settings.

But thats I can live with, after all winning a Match 3-1 is not bad at all (but am still working on it though)

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1 ANNOYING THING THO IS THAT NO MATTER WHICH TV APP I USE THE PICTURE AND THE SOUND ARE NOT IN SYNC ( there is a delay of about 1 or 2 seconds in the picture) i figured since the sound is connected directly to my sound card and since its the picture thats behind it must have something to do with xorg.conf or something to do with video acceleration . PLIZ correct me if am wrong (but am working on that too) WILL START A NEW THREAD ON THIS.

hope this saves someone some swearing at the PC ,hair pulling , .....(The Man Up stairs knows what else).

thanx again for all the help Simon

J