Hi, I have a Avermedia TV98 card. My problem is, when I try to run
xawtv, it starts working fine, but just for about 5-15 seconds. Then the
computer crashes, screen goes frozen, and I have to do a hard reset!
The strange thing is, the card seems the work fine in Gnomemeeting, but
I cannot change the channels there, so it's not really a good way to
watch TV over Gnomemeeting. Both xawtv and gnomemeeting works fine with
my webcam. I tried every possible combination for the card and the tuner
which comes to my mind.
By default the computer detects it as card=13 tuner=2
I am using RH8.0 (kernel 2.4.18) now, but I had the same problem (crash)
when I was using RH7.2 and 7.3
bttv driver version I am using is 0.7.91
The card did not have any problems in Win98, Win2000, WinXP
Any help will be appreciated! If I can solve this problem I will have
one more reason not to keep Windows in my harddrive:)
Orcan
Hi,
this may not have anything with the tv card, the video card may
be problematic. I had big
troubles using linux for a very long time (RedHat 7.1 and 7.3).
Some applications
crashed it completely, Xine, for example. The reason was very
stupid. My ATI128 card is not properly detected by the
Xconfigurator - the amount of memory is not found, so I had to
choose it from the menu that appears during Xconfig process.
But, the stupid thing is that this chosen amount is then not
written to XF86Config and XF86Config.4 files (it is there - VideoRam -,
but commented out!), so some graphic applications trashed the
memory and kept crashing my linux. I have set the value of
'Video Ram' manually and now it works perfectly.
Stane.
