Petr, Thanks for the suggestions...I swapped in a PCI Riva TNT2-64Mb for the AGP ATI Rage 128 PF-32Mb and the whole thing works now! Hooray! I was unable to get (even with fine-tuning) good reception with xawtv, but tvtime (when I set it to us-bcast with the "-f" switch) picks up the attached Super Nintendo and VCR great. No other channels get reception, though...but I think that's because of the lack of a good antenna. Even our TV in the apt has crappy reception. I'm attaching a powered set-top antenna tonight...we'll see if other channels get better reception with that. Thanks, experts! --saul On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 15:42, Saul Farber wrote: > Petr, > > Thanks for the response! I've tried a number of the suggestions...my > comments are inline. > > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:20, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On 8 Nov 02 at 13:45, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > > > > > > I'm running Gentoo linux 1.4_rc1, so the included kernel (2.4.19) can be > > > built with bttv drivers, and I did so. Those drivers (version 0.7.x, I > > > assume) loaded just fine, but when I try to use the card (via xawtv, for > > > example) the card captures poorly for about 5-15 seconds, and then my > > > computer freezes completely. I have to do a hard reset in order to > > > restart my computer. > > > > What hardware do you have? Do not you have VIA chipset on the motherboard, > > by any chance? Most of PentiumIII VIA chipsets I saw cannot cope > > with 32bpp RGB transfers from PCI -> AGP. Either try to get PCI videocard, > > or use 16bpp. > > It's an AthlonXP VIA Chipset of some sort (KT266 maybe?), but I think > your point is a good one, and I actually DO have a PCI videocard to try, > so I'll give that a shot and report the results. > > > > > If you do not have VIA chipset: set Poweroff button to 'immediate poweroff' > > in the BIOS, and when lockup happens, hit (&hold) poweroff button. > > If it powers off immediately, it could be driver/kernel problem. If > > you have to hold button for 4secs to poweroff your box, your PCI bus > > was locked up: get another hardware: either videocard (or videocard > > XFree driver if videocard is something really strange) or motherboard > > cannot cope with heavy busmastering. > > I will run this test and see what the results are...this is a great tip > for figuring the crash problem! > > > > > You can try using vesafb + fbtv to rule out XFree videocard driver > > from the picture... > > I've tried fbtv + aty128fb drivers, but I'll try the VESA fb drivers > too, see if it's really the video card drivers, but I think your above > suggestions are more likely to succeed. > > Thanks for your help! > > --saul > > > Best regards, > > Petr Vandrovec > > vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > -- > > video4linux-list mailing list > > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
