Hi. I installed 7.2 last night (eventually, see other mail :-) ), and I decided to start playing with my TV card to see if I could get it working. It's a Happauge Win/TV PCI NICAM card. Following the SuSE configuration manual, I did the necessary edits to modules.conf (although I'm not sure they're correct), added the necessary modules (it seemed to autodetect most of the hardware OK, and booted up xawtv. All seemed to be going well (snowy picture because I had no aerial plugged in, and no sound because I'd not plugged it in to my sound card). However, after a while, changing channels, it locked up. Totally. No mouse, keyboard, anything. Even Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't work. I had to use the hard reset button to recover. After rebooting and fscking, I tried again. This time, it locked up almost immediately, before I'd even OK-ed the dialog box that pops up when starting xawtv. So, where do I start debugging this? The moment the problem manifests itself, I lose all control over the machine. I had xawtv working reliably under 6.4, albeit without any sound, because sound chip on my card was not supported under the version of the relevant drivers at the time I tried to get it working. Anyone got any ideas? Where to start? -- David Smith Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 (direct) STMicroelectronics Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 1000 Aztec West TINA (ST only): (065) 2380 Almondsbury Home: 01454 616963 BRISTOL Mobile: 07932 642724 BS32 4SQ Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On August 15, 2001 07:34 am, Dave Smith wrote:
However, after a while, changing channels, it locked up. Totally. No mouse, keyboard, anything. Even Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't work. I had to use the hard reset button to recover. After rebooting and fscking, I tried again. This time, it locked up almost immediately, before I'd even OK-ed the dialog box that pops up when starting xawtv.
So, where do I start debugging this? The moment the problem manifests itself, I lose all control over the machine.
I have had similar problems. Go to http://bytesex.org/bttv/ and get the latest 0.7.x tarball. You will need kernel sources (I'm using 2.4.5-SuSE right now) and there is a script in the BTTV distribution that will automagically create a patch for the kernel that you can apply (I was totally impressed with that script, if only it was more common). I highly recommend upgrading Xawtv as well. I create a new RPM for that one (edit spec file, rpm -ba...). Both of those tarballs are updated *very* often so if you find a bug or something, there's probably a new version by the time you find it. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7enGA+FOexA3koIgRAiC9AJ9mLDhbabfZK8zynvsIDC9CnADF7wCfUTtL gL6buR5OJ3h3c8EquJ2tWuE= =nA/i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Dave Smith wrote:
Hi.
I installed 7.2 last night (eventually, see other mail :-) ), and I decided to start playing with my TV card to see if I could get it working. It's a Happauge Win/TV PCI NICAM card. Following the SuSE configuration manual, I did the necessary edits to modules.conf (although I'm not sure they're correct), added the necessary modules (it seemed to autodetect most of the hardware OK, and booted up xawtv. All seemed to be going well (snowy picture because I had no aerial plugged in, and no sound because I'd not plugged it in to my sound card).
However, after a while, changing channels, it locked up. Totally. No mouse, keyboard, anything. Even Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't work. I had to use the hard reset button to recover. After rebooting and fscking, I tried again. This time, it locked up almost immediately, before I'd even OK-ed the dialog box that pops up when starting xawtv.
So, where do I start debugging this? The moment the problem manifests itself, I lose all control over the machine.
I had xawtv working reliably under 6.4, albeit without any sound, because sound chip on my card was not supported under the version of the relevant drivers at the time I tried to get it working.
Anyone got any ideas? Where to start?
The only thing I would do is this: view the file CARDLIST, which resides under /usr/src/linux/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST I believe that is correct, but better check, obviously you need to have the kernel source installed. Its a shot, but if you used 6.4 that was the 2.2 kernel and some things changed with the 2.4 kernel. If you get that working you will probably want to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and enter this line under modules: Load "v4l" Matt
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