On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:02:30AM +0000, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > After some trial and error I managed to get the card going with the > > following xawtv command: "xawtv -remote -noxv-video" (without the latter > > option xawtv= is giving a black screen). The "-remote" seems to turn off > > overlay, so I did this explicitely in .xawtvrc (capture=grabdisplay). If > > I then try to switch within xawtv to overly mode the system freezes > > again. > Sounds like your hardware has problems with PCI-PCI transfers. There is > a README.freeze with some hints ... I tried almost all the recipes there (need to check on disabling ACPI in the kernel). The card worked fine in a Windows test partition in overlay mode. Is there anything more I can do in diagnosing the problem? > > o Upgraded to latest xawtv (3.78 ... Had to upgrade make, autoconf and > > auto= make for that!), > > xawtv doesn't use automake ... autoconf shouldn't be needed too. [...] That is true, but the latest make can only be build in presence of the latest autoconf and latest automake (at least later that the ones shipped with RedHat 8.0). BTW if anyone needs RedHat 8.0 RPMS/SRPMS for those make/autoconf/automake contact me. -- Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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