Claudemir Todo Bom wrote: > > Hi, > > I am an unhappy owner of a Captivator PCI, the card worked satisfatory > under kernels 2.2.x, only with a few hangs when running 'streamer' > utility from 'xawtv'. > > But on kernel 2.4.x it doesn't work at all. > > The driver detects it as an UNKNOWN BT848A card. The card doesn't have a > tuner, and I suppose it doesn't have audio too, because it only have > video conectors. > > As instructed on Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README, I've placed the > following line on /etc/modules.conf: > > options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 > > This makes a 'modprobe bttv' to load faster, but when I call xawtv, my > system completely locks up, a hard reset is needed. I've tweaked around and made some progress. I've found problems: * My machine was giving the same IRQ address to ACPI and to my Captivator, I've managed to make they differ. This way I could remove 'bit_test=1' from 'i2c-algo-bit'; * I've found that "card 57 - GrandTec's Grand Video Capture" is very simmilar to Captivator, with exception of the presence of a PLL. Then I've inserted my bttv module through "modprobe bttv card=57 pll=0". After this done: * Capture frames through the 'streamer' utility from 'xawtv', are working without any hang; * Xawtv always hang on startup, when using no config file (~/.xawtv), with '-v 2' on command line, the hang occurs after the message 'wmhooks: gnome'; * If I edit xawtv and set capture to off, then sometimes (I think that this occurs 2/3 of tries), I'm able to start xawtv, and then select 'capture = overlay' and everything works as expected. On the other 1/3 of tries, the system completely locks, just after the 'wmhooks: gnome' message. I'm starting to think that this problem is from Xawtv, but as it is occuring only on kernel 2.4.x, I thik that this may be a problem of the new bttv driver. Any help is welcome. Thanks in advance, -- ( /'_ _ _/ ( /_ \ Claudemir Todo Bom |/|/// (-(/ |/|/(/(/ | mailto:todobom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx teleinformatica / | http://www.wiredway.com.br/~allgood http://www.wiredway.com.br \
