Update: System hangs when running xawtv

[Mark Newby <mark.newby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Big thanks to all those who volunteered to help out w/ suggestions so 
promptly...

People were mainly talking about hardware, so I tried the TV card in 
another vanilla (RH7.1) box of mine and it seemed to work a treat :) 
So, it seems there's definitely something funny w/ my (S3) 3D Blaster 
Savage 4 (doesn't allow direct memory access??).

One poss solution may have been to view xawtv remotely, but I can't work 
out how to configure xauth ...and now it's too late at night to learn :) 
 Neither does it work using vncserver/vncviewer w/ default win manager.

I tried putting the TV card back in the rogue box, but swapped the video 
card out.  That seems to have solved the hangs, but now the picture's 
dissapeared! :(  I've tried using the /etc/modules.conf options from 
Roland (thanks :) and tried other options (eg from bttv mini howto), 
etc, but still no picture.  Usually it's either black or blue or weird 
patterns.  Nothing interesting in /var/log/messages.

I hope this is drawing to a conclusion and it's now easy for you 
experienced TV-viewers out there to solve the final piece of the puzzle :)


many thanks again,
Mark