On Sun Feb 02 2003 at 19:13, Tony Nugent wrote: > Hardware: > - Winfast TV2000 (with radio) > - nVidia GeForce4 (64Mb) video card > - Piii650, 1Gb 133sdram, on an ASUS p3v4x m'board (VIA chipset) Ok I realise that I'm not a developer, but I'm bemused that my cry for help has apparently been ignored. I've tried all sorts of things to get this working (again), but to no avail. If anyone could point me in the right direction to nailing this problem then I would be most grateful. Please? If the recommendation is to use a new kernel built from the bytesex.org patches, then I'll try doing that. Many thanks. > The bttv driver (v0.7.91) and the radio/fbtv/xawtv utils were > working quite nicely with an nvidia 32Mb TNT card. > > I recently replaced it with the geforce4, and now only fbtv and the > radio are working. > I can modprobe the bttv driver (or simply run "radio -qf 91.7" etc > to do the same thing) with no complaints, but as soon as I try > running xawtv in X (as any user) I get this: > > This is xawtv-3.73, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18-19.7.x) > can't open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory > v4l2: open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory > v4l: open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory > no video grabber device available > > And in syslog: > > kernel: bttv: vmalloc_32(4259840) failed v4l-conf gives me similar errors... $ v4l-conf v4l-conf: using X11 display :0 dga: version 2.0 mode: 1600x1200, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=3584, base=0xd8000000 can't open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory $ v4l-conf -f map: vt07 => fb0 v4l-conf: using framebuffer device /dev/fb0 mode: 1280x1024, depth=16, bpp=16, bpl=2560, base=0xd8000000 can't open /dev/video0: Cannot allocate memory Cheers Tony
