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08-31-2003, 10:25 PM
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: Debian unstable
Posts: 83
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xawtv works, but messes up other programs
i have xawtv working fine, but after i shut it off ( or even while it's running) i get large chunks of... well.. green static in other programs. if i try to use mozilla, the entire menu area and often parts of the screen are covered with this green static. if you want a pic of what it looks like, just email me, and i'll send you a .png screenshot.
if anyone has any clues on how i can keep this from happening, it'd be helpfull. it's not something that totally destroys my machine, it's just really really really really really annoying. any help much appreciated.
thanks, rebelcan
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08-31-2003, 11:29 PM
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Left Coast - Canada
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The first place I would look is at the way v4l is talking to your display. I don't have xawtv installed on any of our machines, but IIRC you can have a look at the ouput of v4lctl for a hint. You may also be having a bumpy ride on the graphics hardware side as well. Post some info about your system and include the Devices section from your XF86Config file as well.
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09-06-2003, 04:09 AM
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: Debian unstable
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the output of:
v4lctl -v 2 xawtv
is :
Xvideo: 1 adaptors available.
Xvideo: ATI Rage128 Video Overlay: input video image, ports 61-61
Xvideo: skipping ports 61-61 (configured other: -1)
Xvideo: no usable video port found
vid-open: trying: v4l2-old...
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
vid-open: failed: v4l2-old
vid-open: trying: v4l2...
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
vid-open: failed: v4l2
vid-open: trying: v4l...
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
vid-open: failed: v4l
no grabber device available
which is strange.... because just plain 'xawtv' works fine...
device section from XF86Config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI All-in-Wonder Pro"
VideoRam 16384
EndSection
i'm running red-hat 9.0, latest kernel, as you can see, with a ati all-in-wonder 128 pro video card.
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