From: Stane Gruden <Stanislav.Gruden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: avertv 98 causes crash Date: 30 Oct 2002 07:13:04 +0100 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. Thanks, Unfortunately it didnt work:( My video card was one of the things I suspected. I have a NVidia Geforce2 MX400. XConfigurator seems to identify it correctly. It sees it as NVidia Geforce2 MX (there is no MX400 option) I tried to put a line like VideoRam 65536 to the device section in XF86Config file. (By the way, where is the other file you mentioned, there is no file XF86Config.4 or XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11 or somewhere else) Then I prayed and opened xawtv... BOOM! again it crashed. next I tried to change the AGP setting in my bios. I dropped it from 4X to 2X, it didnt help again... I also tried to remove all the cards but the TVCard and the videocard; to avoid possible conflicts... No hope... Something weird is going on. Maybe there are more than one thing to be corrected, I dont know. Well, again thanks for your help Orcan
