Hi Billy! Thanks a lot. After installing the GATOS drivers now everything runs fine. tvtime is great! Regards Michael On Thursday 06 March 2003 13:40, Billy Biggs wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Scherer (michael.scherer@xxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > >Seems I can't persuade the v4l module in XFree86 to recognize my > > > >WinTV PCI Card (Hauppauge). > > > > > > > >xvinfo tells me that Adaptor #0 is video4linux, which I'm led to > > > >believe that it doesn't find anything except someone to talk with. > > > > > > > > I'm running Gentoo 1.4, kernel 2.4.20, XFree 4.3.0, gcc 3.2.2, > > > > bttv 0.7.105 (tried 0.9.6, no difference), xawtv 3.85 which gives > > > > me a lot of black in the right portion of the screen, except when > > > > running in its default micro window. Box is an AMD-Duron 733 with > > > > ATI Mach 64 3D Rage PRO. > > > > > > > > dmesg, lspci, lsmod and the X-log tell me everything is OK. xawtv > > > > doesn't complain in either -xv or -noxv mode, only I'd like to try > > > > some other programs, but they all tell me there is no device > > > > supporting YUY2 or such. > > The "v4l" module is working perfectly. If an application complains > because of a lack of a YUY2 XVideo surface, this is a problem with your > video card driver (ATI) not providing a YUY2 overlay surface, and has > nothing to do with the v4l module. > > Make sure the X driver you're using for the 3D Rage Pro supports YUY2 > overlay surfaces. In tvtime I will make sure my error message is more > helpful in future, as it seems there is some confusion between the role > of v4l style XVideo modules, which provide video to the X server, and > overlay surface XVideo modules, which provide memory buffers where > applications can upload video. > > tvtime, for example, does use the "v4l" X module for anything.
