Re: xawtv black, VHX + RHL7.2

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| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx>

| xawtv now shows only black.  It worked under 6.2.

More data.

If I use
	startx -- -fbbpp 8
to start the X server, I can see the TV picture (but only in black and
white).

Once, when I used
	startx -- -fbbpp 16
to start the X server, I could see a nice colour picture.  At some
point later, the machine froze solid, requiring a reboot.  It didn't
even respond to pings from another machine, so the freeze was not just
of the display.  I have yet to figure out how to repeat this success.

I tried
	startx -- -fbbpp 24
but that left me with a black xawtv image.

Perhaps this is interesting:
    hugh $ xawtv -hwscan
    This is xawtv-3.54, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.9-13smp)
    looking for available devices
    port 46-46
	type : Xvideo, video overlay
	name : video4linux
    port 47-47
	type : Xvideo, image scaler
	name : ATI Rage128 Video Overlay
    /dev/video0: OK
	type : v4l
	name : BT848A(Aimslab VHX)
	flags: overlay capture tuner 

In the archives, I saw mention of turning DRI off.  Could that be
relevant?  How do you do that?

| Bonus
| marks for pointing me in the direction of a program to play my radio.

Duh.  The "radio" command acts like it works (it lets me tune), but no
sound comes out.

Here's the output in /var/spool/log
 tuner: radio freq set to 400.00
 tuner: radio freq (400.00) out of range (65-108)
 tuner: radio freq set to 104.50
 tuner: PLL locked
 tuner: Signal: 32768

104.5 is a local radio station.  Reception isn't great here -- we're
in a valley.  I get the same "PLL Locked" and "32767" for non-stations
too :-(

Hugh Redelmeier
hugh@xxxxxxxxxx  voice: +1 416 482-8253





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