Re: Latest Mar 13 saa7134 snapshot (was Re: xawtv, zapping andxinerama)

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Es schrieb Stian Jordet:
> 
> tir, 2003-03-18 kl. 04:30 skrev Steven Ellis:
> > --- Stian Jordet <liste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > man, 2003-03-17 kl. 22:47 skrev Billy Biggs:
> > > > Stian Jordet (liste@xxxxxxxxx):
> > > >
> > > > > But I'm quite happy with the driver now :)
> > > >
> > > >   Anyone have some notes on using this with
> > > tvtime?  Do we no longer
> > > > need to use v4l-conf to setup the framebuffer to
> > > get it to work?  I'd
> > > > love to update our docs if this is true.
> > > >
> > > >   Any known problems?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/hardware.html#saa7134
> > > >
> > >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=694863&group_id=64301&atid=506987
> > > >   ... plus some unconfirmed reports on IRC.
> > >
> > > Hmm. I don't know :) I have totally converted to
> > > 2.5.x (for several
> > > reasons), but just to please you (as you have been
> > > very nice to me :) I
> > > decided to compile latest 2.4. :) Patched kernel
> > > 2.4.21-pre5 with latest
> > > v4l2 patches. saa7134 0.2.6 driver. This works like
> > > a charm with both
> > > xawtv and zapping (except in xinerama). But tvtime
> > > and mplayer just
> > > segfaults on me. Since another guy had mplayer
> > > working, there is either
> > > something else wrong with my setup, or I have a bad
> > > cvs-snapshot of
> > > mplayer. Since tvtime is segfaulting as well, I
> > > guess it is my setup. I
> > > have just upgraded to XFree86 4.3, maybe that's the
> > > reason (but I tried
> > > mplayer in console as well, segfault even then).
> >
> > Your problems might be down to compilers, Mplayer is
> > particularly picky, and tvtime can screw up on older
> > versions of GCC occasionally.
> >
> > Hope to try the latest saa7134 with the latest Mplayer
> > and tvtime later this week..
> Hmm. This is very, very weird. I have tried kernel 2.4.21-pre5 with the
> latest v4l2 patch from bytesex.org (20030312). Then xawtv and zapping
> worked perfect with both saa7134-0.2.5 and saa7134-0.2.6. And I was
> happy.
> 
> But when I tried tvtime og mplayer to show tv, they both segfaulted.
> Also if I first ran v4l-conf. Always segfault with both drivers. So I
> reinstalled kernel 2.4.20 with v4l2 patch from 20030117. With
> saa7134-0.2.6, xawtv, zapping and mplayer worked perfect. TVtime did
> also work perfect, but I still have to run v4l-conf :( But for the first
> time, mplayer works as supposed.
>
 
Just for confirmation. On 2.4.20 I have all the same then you.

> I can't understand why they segfaults with kernel 2.4.21-pre5. Since
> noone else has complained, I guess it's my setup it is something wrong
> with. :( Anyway, I'm very eager to see the 0.2.6 driver for kernel 2.5.x
> series.
> 
> Btw. tvtime is the application that seems to like xinerama best :):)
> 

Greetings

Hermann

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