| 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
