I can run xawtv (and zapping) grabber mode, but I would much prefer overlay (less overhead). When I try overlay I get a wierd cyan screen with some green square looking things - sometimes there is part of a scene, but nothing moving. I've tried two different cards (one ati tv wonder and an older hauppaugge card - both worked fine in overlay mode under Mandrake 9.0). I have a GeForce4 MX 440 card and I am using the nvidia-glx-1.0.4191 and nvidia-kernel-1.0.4191 versions of the nvidia driver - I have tried using the nv driver as well to no avail. this is the Module section in my XF86Config Section "Module" # This loads the DBE extension module. Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension Load "v4l" Load "extmod" # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Load "type1" Load "freetype" # This loads the GLX module Load "glx" Load "dri" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection this is the output of xawtv -hwscan This is xawtv-3.83, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-win4lin-r1) looking for available devices port 103-103 [ -xvport 103 ] type : Xvideo, video overlay name : video4linux port 104-104 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : NV17 Video Overlay port 105-136 type : Xvideo, image scaler name : NV05 Video Blitter /dev/v4l/video0: OK [ -device /dev/v4l/video0 ] type : v4l name : BT878(Hauppauge (bt878)) flags: overlay capture tuner and my xvinfo output X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 Adaptor #0: "video4linux" number of ports: 1 port base: 103 operations supported: PutVideo supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 depth 24, visualID 0x23 depth 24, visualID 0x24 depth 24, visualID 0x25 depth 24, visualID 0x26 depth 24, visualID 0x27 depth 24, visualID 0x28 depth 24, visualID 0x29 depth 24, visualID 0x2a depth 24, visualID 0x2b depth 24, visualID 0x2c depth 24, visualID 0x2d number of attributes: 12 "XV_ENCODING" (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) "XV_CONTRAST" (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is -157) "XV_SATURATION" (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is -8) "XV_HUE" (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) "XV_VOLUME" (range -1000 to 1000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 999) "XV_MUTE" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) "XV_FREQ" (range 0 to 16000) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 3092) "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 66046) "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) "XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 0) client settable attribute "XV_ITURBT_709" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) number of encodings: 28 encoding ID #0: "pal-television" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #1: "ntsc-television" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #2: "secam-television" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #3: "palnc-television" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #4: "palm-television" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #5: "paln-television" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #6: "ntscjp-television" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #7: "pal-composite1" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #8: "ntsc-composite1" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #9: "secam-composite1" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #10: "palnc-composite1" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #11: "palm-composite1" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #12: "paln-composite1" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #13: "ntscjp-composite1" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #14: "pal-svideo" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #15: "ntsc-svideo" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #16: "secam-svideo" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #17: "palnc-svideo" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #18: "palm-svideo" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #19: "paln-svideo" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #20: "ntscjp-svideo" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #21: "pal-composite3" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #22: "ntsc-composite3" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 encoding ID #23: "secam-composite3" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #24: "palnc-composite3" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #25: "palm-composite3" size: 640 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #26: "paln-composite3" size: 768 x 576 rate: 0.020000 encoding ID #27: "ntscjp-composite3" size: 640 x 480 rate: 0.016683 Adaptor #1: "NV17 Video Overlay" number of ports: 1 port base: 104 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 depth 24, visualID 0x23 depth 24, visualID 0x24 depth 24, visualID 0x25 depth 24, visualID 0x26 depth 24, visualID 0x27 depth 24, visualID 0x28 depth 24, visualID 0x29 depth 24, visualID 0x2a depth 24, visualID 0x2b depth 24, visualID 0x2c depth 24, visualID 0x2d depth 24, visualID 0x22 depth 24, visualID 0x2e depth 24, visualID 0x2f depth 24, visualID 0x30 depth 24, visualID 0x31 depth 24, visualID 0x32 depth 24, visualID 0x33 depth 24, visualID 0x34 depth 24, visualID 0x35 depth 24, visualID 0x36 depth 24, visualID 0x37 depth 24, visualID 0x38 number of attributes: 9 "XV_DOUBLE_BUFFER" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 66046) "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 1) "XV_SET_DEFAULTS" (range 0 to 0) client settable attribute "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range -512 to 511) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 8191) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 4096) "XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 8191) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 4096) "XV_HUE" (range 0 to 360) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) "XV_ITURBT_709" (range 0 to 1) client settable attribute client gettable attribute (current value is 0) maximum XvImage size: 2046 x 2046 Number of image formats: 4 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) Adaptor #2: "NV05 Video Blitter" number of ports: 32 port base: 105 operations supported: PutImage supported visuals: depth 24, visualID 0x21 depth 24, visualID 0x23 depth 24, visualID 0x24 depth 24, visualID 0x25 depth 24, visualID 0x26 depth 24, visualID 0x27 depth 24, visualID 0x28 depth 24, visualID 0x29 depth 24, visualID 0x2a depth 24, visualID 0x2b depth 24, visualID 0x2c depth 24, visualID 0x2d depth 24, visualID 0x22 depth 24, visualID 0x2e depth 24, visualID 0x2f depth 24, visualID 0x30 depth 24, visualID 0x31 depth 24, visualID 0x32 depth 24, visualID 0x33 depth 24, visualID 0x34 depth 24, visualID 0x35 depth 24, visualID 0x36 depth 24, visualID 0x37 depth 24, visualID 0x38 no port attributes defined maximum XvImage size: 2046 x 2046 Number of image formats: 5 id: 0x32595559 (YUY2) guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x32315659 (YV12) guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x59565955 (UYVY) guid: 55595659-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 16 number of planes: 1 type: YUV (packed) id: 0x30323449 (I420) guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 12 number of planes: 3 type: YUV (planar) id: 0x3 guid: 03000000-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 bits per pixel: 32 number of planes: 1 type: RGB (packed) depth: 0 red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff Thanks CP
