David Fairey wrote: > > Sorry I haven't got back to you sooner, but here's what I've found out. > > > > Also only the top third of screen > > > tends to be noisy the rest is occasionally updated. > > > > Is the rest (2/3) showing the correct picture (whenever updated)? > > No actually the rest of the screen would be black most of the time. ... > To narrow down the problem even further, the following question in the FAQ > gave me the idea to soft boot the machine into Linux after viewing the TV in > Windows. > > Q: I can´t change the TV station, I just see what I´ve tuned in last in > > Windows. > > A: insmod tuner.o > > So I've just installed Win98 on another drive and installed all the relevant > drivers and it works fine.. Then soft-booting into Linux (Big thanks to > GRUB). Running fbtv straight away with PAL and europe-west channels I can > tune into all 5 channels available in the UK. Yippee!!! Fine. > > Tho after a hard-boot the picture goes back to noise again. So it seems that > Windows "initialises" this card in a way that bttv doesn't yet. > > I hope this has given you some ideas on how to get the card working directly > out of the box without the need for Windows. The card here works purely Linux (no Windows on this machine). You could try: - connect a video source to Composite or SVid (e.g. video recorder, ...) and see if this works after warmboot/coldboot. With this we could see it the problem lies in some BT8x8/PCI setup or really is voodoo/MT2032 specific (anyway it would be specific to some difference between your machine and mine). - toggle "PNP OS" setting in BIOS setup
