I concur, well nearly...
A while ago, I hadn't been having any luck at all with my FV3K (PAL, no
FM radio).
Recently, I went and upgraded the saa7134 driver I was running (to
0.1.10), compiled a real 2.4.19 kernel, not -pre, setup the lastest
NVidia binary drivers, retuned all the channels in xawtv.... (the kernel
is dated Sep 4, so its about the last 2 weeks also)
It pretty much started working, I had a few false starts where it only
worked running -noxv with Capture set to grabdisplay (the picture was
blacked out otherwise). Then it started worked with grabdisplay and
overlay, and I thought all my problems were solved...
Then, after what would be about 4 or 5 days according to 'last', I
rebooted after the video dropped out. I have done a couple of reboots
since, sometimes the video comes back for a while, but often drops out
within 3 hours or so. Now I only get sound, no picture. I have never
had sound drop out like a lot of people reported a couple of weeks ago,
except for the odd occasion where it dropped out but changing channel
back and forth picked it up again.
On another note, an error I get that I have no idea why is:
$ xawtv -noxv
This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19)
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30840/30840/30146/29929/0,depth=24,fmt=4):
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30801/30840/29929/29929/0,depth=24,fmt=4):
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30840/30801/29929/29929/0,depth=24,fmt=4):
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30840/30840/29929/30146/0,depth=24,fmt=4):
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
but only when running -noxv. Does anyone know what this means?
Regards,
Robert
Jozsa Kristof wrote:
Hi,
I've silently gathered the experiences of the last 2 weeks about my
flyvideo3k. I did not touched the config, nor the card, just booted up every
evening, and tried whether it works or not. When it worked, I saw TV for a
few hours.
However stupid it sounds, I can clearly state the following: my flyvideo3k
card starts working in about every 4 days. (I mean starts working == has
both sound and picture). I watch TV for 2-3 days, and *meanwhile* I'm
watching xawtv, the picture goes out. I might switch channels, quit and
start xawtv again, it has no picture, only sound. And *after that* if I
reboot, I fall back to the core problem: I have only pic, and no sound, and
this stays so for the next ~4 days, and the whole process rollbacks to the
start :)
hope that's some pieces of useful info tracking down the problem,
Christopher
