On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, warren hrach wrote: > > > Bryan, > > If the card is detected during boot up try 'xawtv'. The docs and all > > are in an rpm for it. I use it daily for TV from my cabletv tuner box on > > just channel 3. > > Hi Warren, > > That is in fact what I am trying to use, however I cannot get any video > (nor anything using radio to tune stations). Everything I can find points > to this being from a missing tuner.o. And I can of course find the > tuner.c and tuner.h in the kernel source, however I have no idea what > options will get it to compile. > > Furthermore it is even more confusing that there are various patches > (v4l2, bttv) and tarballs (bttv, videodevX) all of which dont give a > straightforward "use these patches OR use this tarball, OR use the tarball > from site x". > > So which is really needed, the videodevX from thedirks.org, or the v4l2 > patches (and others) from bytesex.org? And, where on earth is the tuner > option, to get tuner.o compiled, in the kernel config? > > If there is another list that is more directed at bttv stuff please let me > know, I don't want to be off topic. > > Thanks, > > Bryan I am sure you are on the right list and on topic. Actually I have little knowledge of patches, or tarballs relating to tvcards and xawtv. I first got a AverTV video stereo card and installed on my R.H. V7.2 but that took a kernel recompile and someone else did it for me. When I installed RH V8.0 the card was detected immediatley and all I had to do was run 'scantv' or similar to start the .xawtv file in my user dir. I keep my RH uptodate using up2date often. My current kernel is 2.4.20-18.0 updated when kernel updates are announced. I did try RH 9.0 but when xawtv did not want to work correctly I just went back to 8.0. It may well be RH 9.0 is now working better with xawtv and tvcards but for no will stick to RH 8.0. YMMV so all I can say is I see no need to mess with patches tarballs etc, stick with RedHat and it should work. Warren
