Hello, I'm new to this list, so I apologize in advance if I am asking about something that's already been discussed in the past. OTOH, part of me is hoping this is a know problem as I have been trying to figure this out for nearly two weeks now and it's just about to drive me nuts. Ahem. So, first off, a few basic (but important, I think) points: I just recently switched from Windows (XP) to linux (Mandrake 9.1) so I'm still pretty new to all this. I am NOT a programmer, so I would appreciate if potential answers didn't get too technical, lol, that's one thing that I have trouble with in linux, it can get way too obscure for me sometimes. Anyway, I have learned a lot in the past couple of weeks, and still learning, and willing to learn more... just finding all of this a bit overwhelming at times. Now I have a Pinnacle TV Studio/Rave (bt878) TV card. It was working ok in XP... well, ok as in "I could watch TV for two or three hours before the PC froze and I had to reboot, invariably losing some data in the process." On a side note, that's part of the reason why I finally decided to make the big jump to linux. Aside from the card though, XP was running fine. It would only crash when I used the TV card, so it was definitely something there... even reinstalling XP didn't help. In Mandrake, of course, no crashes :-) that's an improvement. However, the problem I have in linux is that I only get one network. Which network depends on what channel I was last watching when I was in Windows. I can flip channels fine, but I get the same network on EVERY channel, no matter what. Some technical stuff I've managed to figure out: card type = 39 (Pinnacle Studio/Rave) tuner type = 3 (Phillips Pal/Secam) I got the above from the Windows apps I was running. I had to test several tuner types before I got those right. It was confirmed in linux however because they are the only settings that get me an image at all. Any other settings (well perhaps I haven't tried them all, but I've tried *a lot*) just get me garbage. I of course select France as "frequency table", "secam" as TV norm and television as video source, which I think about covers it all. Now I've tried to edit my modules.conf file according to a number of different examples I've found on the web, but here's what happens. Whatever changes I make always lead to the same thing: the picture disappears and is replaced with "snow" (whatever you call that garbage in English) and the usual hissing (or whatever) sound. Sometimes I'll see somewhat of a shape behind all the garbage and when flipping channels I'll notice that it's exactly the same picture, so that problem is still there. Now this garbage remains until I reboot the computer, and then I'm back at square one (nice picture, but just one network on all the channels). This is on XawTV. I've also tried tvtime (great looking app)... it's about the same behavior except that after editing modules.conf, instead of "snow" I get a blue screen (but the same "hissing" sound as above)... and when I shut it down that sound remains for some reason (not when the pic & sound are ok, though, only with the garbage stuff) and will only go away after I start up and close XawTV. I've also tried Zapping and it's the same all over again. Oh, and scanning for channels doesn't help any. Doesn't even work at all in tvtime (it acts like it's working, but the same channel number remains written on the screen all the time). Now I'm not entirely sure which version of bttv I have (how can I check this?) but I can tell you which kernel version I'm running. A "uname -a" returns the following line: Linux localhost 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux And here's what my modules.conf currently looks like (I've tried A LOT of different settings though)... The ## Default section, BTW, is what was in the file before I edited it... it used to have ONLY those lines... all the bttv stuff I added in myself based on research I did on the web (yes, I've read a lot about this on webpages, manpages, readme's and whatnot, but I'm still baffled and clueless) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## Default probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx ## Video Card # 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 options bttv card=39 options tuner type=3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Also, typing "dmesg | grep bttv" returns the following output: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ bttv0: unloading bttv0: i2c detach [client=tda9887,ok] bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0a.0, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xde011000 bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012 bttv0: using: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Ra) [card=39,insmod option] bttv0: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=4 info="PAL+SECAM / mono" radio=no bttv0: using tuner=33 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found tuner(bttv): type forced to 3 (Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF, FM1216MF, FR1216MF)) [insmod] bttv0: i2c attach [client=Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF,ok] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 bttv0: unloading bttv0: i2c detach [client=tda9887,ok] bttv0: i2c detach [client=Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF,ok] bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0a.0, irq: 9, latency: 32, mmio: 0xde011000 bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012 bttv0: using: BT878(Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Ra) [card=39,insmod option] bttv0: i2c attach [client=tda9887,ok] bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=4 info="PAL+SECAM / mono" radio=no bttv0: using tuner=33 bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found tuner(bttv): type forced to 3 (Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF, FM1216MF, FR1216MF)) [insmod] bttv0: i2c attach [client=Philips (SECAM+PAL_BG) (FI1216MF,ok] bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ha! I guess that line "bttv: driver version 0.7.100 loaded" answers my previous question about which version I was using, lol... weird, I was looking for that in dmesg before and didn't see it... oh well. So anyway, there you have it. I hope I didn't forget anything... let me know if you need more information. And hopefully someone can help me figure this out... Thanks for your time. Alex. --------------------------------------------------- http://members.tripod.com/~Mandor/asg-us.htm Music Videos : mvdbase.com [database] http://www.freelists.org/list/mv [mailing-list] Progressive rock : prog.xrs.net / rip.xrs.net ---------------------------------------------------
