March 2004 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[Fwd: Help, please, with a tv tuner card using a Conexant chipset on Suse 9 system]
by Basil Chupin 31 Mar '04

31 Mar '04

I installed several days ago as a replacement to my Leaddtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe card, which I've been using successfully for many months, the DV2000 card also from Leadtek. Suse 9 doesn't recognise it, and the settings I had for the Deluxe card won't activate the new card. The new card uses the Conexant CX2388X series chipset, and the scan of its innards produces the following info: Device Identifier (spec) : 91680 Device Identifier : 100352 Sub-Vendor identifier : 69757 (ie, LeadTek) Unique key : 60go.TTV2ZT_l+r4 Vendor Identifier : 70897 (ie, Conexant) Old_unique_key : fbl_x.TTV2ZT_l+r4 I've looked in the file CARDLIST in the documentation for bttv but I cannot immediately see anything there to get this card working. I've also Googled re the Conexant chipset and found that a number of tuners are using it, and for some time now so it isn't a new chipset which suddenly appeared on the scene. Support at SuSE suggest that I post a message here for help, and could also try using the "default" kernel 2.6.4 (which they don't support) - I've looked in the directory for the Mantel kernel build and can see 2 versions of the default kernel as well as 2 versions of the source rpms and don't know which I should download (I guess I'll also have to download the source code to be able to compile the kernel to fit my current setup, right? Or is it only the source code I need to compile?). Any help re this problem greatly appreciated. Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.

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sound cards med-high end
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

** I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we aint all there ** I am turning one of my Suse boxes into a video editing-movie/dvd creating box.. at least that is the current plan I am looking for information about the best semi pro sound cards you might recomend, along w/ "if money is no object" recomendations. ( Might as well have an idea how high the bar is . IT helps purchasing decisions in a peicemeal setup sometimes. The box we are building upon is a "purpose built polywell, which has been rebuilt by them several times, now Athlon 1700 ( xp) although I expect it wont belong before the asus board gets tossed for soemthing that could handle several athlons. Got 1.5gig ram on it... presently an nvidia video card which is already for the bin , I am sort of looking at a topline ati or matrox , since the video cards I tend to hand me rounds when new boxes come in w/ onboard chips etc.. I am still investigating the capture card situation .. prefer to spend my money on quality especially something that has a Linux positive company rather than the usual types who are willling to take you money but don't care to let anyone know they might even *work* in a linux box. Partially their laziness, and the fact that there is still a heavy MS thumb on the hardware folks. One hopes they are begining to see the light , tho. Sound , however is really important... anyone ever been around film, animation , anything knows how sound can really help move a story along, and add a lot to a picture. IF you don't believe it, rent a dvd of jaws, and turn your lights out and the sound up.. at least til the dialog take over the picture. W/o that theme and the sound editing, it was a really average summer flick. Might even go so far as to say "incredibley average" I'm not overly worried about the price of the equipment being the lowest posible bidder, looking more for the middle range ( which is why , I guess I asked also about proces of the top kit... Best to know what the setup is going to take when I get round to building a couple of these things that by then I'd want ( need) to have top level stuff on. -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit it's just an afterthought; okay ? : SYSTEM ERROR: Place sacrifice at keyboard to continue....

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SuSE 9.0 framebuffer problem
by Ed Tannenbaum 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hello, I'm booting SuSE 9.0 with a boot line with vga=768 and I'm seeing the penguin and all seems normal. I run fbset and it tells me that I am in the mode that I suspect. However when I try to run an app that expects a framebuffer, (i.e. using SDL) it can't find it. This works fine in other distro's of Linux, but SuSE seems to be doing something that is blocking my use of graphics at the console. Any clues out there???? Thanks in advance, et

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kwintv -> Video Clip ...
by Frank Schulz 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Hello! I have a problem with kwintv. I can't set the directory. A further try to select 'Television->Video Clip ...' nothing happens anymore. Does anyone else has this probs? May i set the config-file manually? Are there any other tools to record the tv program? BTW: I use a Haupage, WinTV-Express; SuSE9.0; futher information available. THX frank

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