Jim D wrote:
I've installed my Pinnacle PCTV, and it seems to auto detect w/o
issue. I assume this means the bttv driver is there, especially as I
can start xawtv and get a signal. The problem is that the signal is
very poor in quality, and I cannot change the channel- no matter what
channel I change to and xawtv says it is on, it stays on what would be
channel 65 under my normal cable. I've set the xawtv parameters to
us-cable, tried pal, secam and every other option, but nothing seems
to work for me.
This is probably a basic issue, hopefully easily resolved by someone
with more experience than me. (my area is more BSD sys admin, now
turned linux home hobbyist)
I'm running a full and fresh install of RH 8.0, kernel 2.4.18-14.
I've also played around with the defaults in .xawtv to no avail. THe
person who responded to my original query below indicated that tuner
should be set to "tuner=33", but I don't know quite where to set that.
Thats me :-) I got exactly the same result as you when I first tried.
What I did was to download the latest bttv-driver (stable). This version
doesn't correctly autodetect the tuner, so you have to insert this line
in your /etc/modules.conf (assuming that the tuner at your card is the
same as mine):
options bttv card=52 radio=1 tuner=33
or if you load the driver manually: "modprobe bttv tuner=33 radio=1"
(and i think it is important that tuner and bttv isn't loaded before you
do this. To be sure: "rmmod bttv; rmmod tuner")
If this works, please tell if you can get the radio working (using
programs like fm, gradio, xmms-plugin for radio). It doesn't work for me
:-( (the bttv-autor has said he will check that problem)
Thank you all for any help you can spare on this.
Jim D.
On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 08:07 AM, Marius Kotsbak wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:18:48PM -0300, Jim D wrote:
Hello all,
I'm running RH 8.0 on a P III 500 mhz, 320 ram, on-board video card.
Could anyone suggest a TV tuner card that would be a very basic and
easy install?
I like my Pinnacle PCTV PRO. It installs by just loading the
bttv-driver and specifying tuner=33. The radio is not working yet
though.
Then use any v4l-compatible program like xawtv or zapping.
One for which I won't have to research the net for
drivers and the appropriate setup configuration, but can simply drop
into a PCI slot, maybe have to run an RPM against for support, and take
a stock X app for TV watching and possibly capture and be ready to run
with.
It all doesn't have to be quite that simple, but close to it would be
great. Thank you all for any assistance you can give on this matter.
Respectfully,
J...etc.
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 07:47 PM, Mark McClelland wrote:
Peter Schlaf wrote:
Gerd Knorr wrote:
We do need a 'mode' field in v4l2_frequency for that, I think. That
field could also be used for setting spectrum inversion for ATSC,
antenna polarization for sat, etc...
I added a type field to the tuner struct, so we can add support for
ATSC+stuff later. Also plenty of "reserved" fields to
v4l2_frequency
...
For the implementation of selection the antenna polarization and
other
satellite related switches it is IMHO better to have an own struct,
e.g. struct v4l2_antenna and two ioctl calls for reading and setting
this struct. This would make the API more cleaner.
You're probably right about that. Some other things could be added to
that struct too, like rotator control. I think we should wait until we
have a good selection of hardware to study before adding any of that
to the API, though (the same goes for ATSC for the most part). These
things can be implemented as driver-specific ioctls or even v4l2
controls at first, and then added to the official API once we have
more experience.
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