I have got the above TV tuner card. It works Ok in windows. In rh 6.2
and as well mdk 7.2, I unable to get it work. I have gone thro' the
kernel docs. I tried with
kernel 2.2.17 and also 2.4.1 along with X 3.3.6 and also 4.0.2. Now I
have kernel 2.4.1 and X 4.0.2 in RH 6.2. out put of video modules are
like this.
[root@lvghomepc] /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/media/video# l
total 164
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 19:56 ./
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 May 4 19:44 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 74985 May 4 19:44 bttv.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 19540 May 4 19:44 msp3400.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5188 May 4 19:44 tda7432.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4872 May 4 19:44 tda9875.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 6288 May 4 19:44 tuner.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 12428 May 4 19:44 tvaudio.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 6172 May 4 19:44 tvmixer.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 7360 May 4 19:44 videodev.o
[root@lvghomepc] /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/i2c# l
total 52
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 19:44 ./
drwxrwxr-x 10 root root 4096 May 4 19:44 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 11812 May 4 19:44 i2c-algo-bit.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 22924 May 4 19:44 i2c-core.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 7296 May 4 19:44 i2c-dev.o
my modules.conf is like this
#video lines
# TV
# i2c
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
# bttv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k msp3400; modprobe -k tuner
options bttv card=37 bttv_debug=1 #tuner=5
options tuner debug=1 type=1
card was tried as 16 for play tv pro and 37 play tv. Tuner both 1 and 5
was tried.
while sarting xawrv I get like this.
[lvgandhi@lvghomepc] ~$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.43, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.1)
x11: 800x600, 16 bit/pixel, 0 byte/scanline
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>")
v4l: 800x600, 16 bit/pixel, 1600 byte/scanline
wmhooks: gnome
ioctl: VIDIOCCAPTURE(on): Invalid argument
any solutions?
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L.V.Gandhi
MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA
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