On Sunday 25 November 2001 21:25, Geoff wrote:

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:04:24 -0500

zentara wrote:

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Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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Since I have installed my Video card (Haupage bt848) on my Pentium II,

400mHz

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television but only the sound part. The small monitor from Xawtv remains black or sometimes shows some colored bands.

I have a generic bt848, and it works(I have no sound with it). Have you tried right-clicking on the Xawtv window to get the menu? If so try increasing brightness(mine always starts too dark). Also make sure you select NTSC if you are in the states, it starts up in PAL mode without a configuration file.

That is all good advice Constant. If it doesn not work you could try starting xawtv with something like this "xawtv -noxv -nodga -noscale &"

Whatever the aditions meant, they did not make a difference ;-(. Do you have more ideas? Somebody of the german list had this problem also and he solved it after playing a lot with Sax2, although he does not know what he exactly changed ;-(. My setup is just plain vanilla. So I do not know why I have a problem.

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:50:12 +0700 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

On Sunday 25 November 2001 21:25, Geoff wrote:

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On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 09:04:24 -0500

zentara wrote:

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Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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Since I have installed my Video card (Haupage bt848) on my Pentium II,

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That is all good advice Constant. If it doesn not work you could try starting xawtv with something like this "xawtv -noxv -nodga -noscale &"

Whatever the aditions meant, they did not make a difference ;-(. Do you have more ideas? Somebody of the german list had this problem also and he solved it after playing a lot with Sax2, although he does not know what he exactly changed ;-(. My setup is just plain vanilla. So I do not know why I have a problem. Sorry but forgot to tell that after your aditions I got following information. No idea what to do with it.

ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(1): Input/output error ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(1): Input/output error ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error

I am not very expert in these matters Constant. The initialisation string I suggested was the one I arrived at by trial and error, because without it the combination of my MGA400 card and xawtv gives *exactly* the black screen problem you have. The only other suggestions I can make are : (1) Does lsmod show something like : tuner 8064 1 (autoclean) tvaudio 9660 0 (autoclean) (unused) bttv 60128 0 (autoclean) (2) Is /usr/local/bin/v4l-conf present and does it have suid root permissions ? See the bttv Readme : common problems --------------- ?: I have a black screen in overlay mode !: The driver was not initialized correctly, v4l-conf (or the X-Server) has to configure the bttv driver with the current video mode and framebuffer address first. Check if v4l-conf is installed suid root, it needs root priviliges to do this. You can also start v4l-conf from a terminal and check the messages it prints. (3) You could try playing with some of the other command line options in man xawtv. (4) Does kwintv work ? I have found that it often works when xawtv does not, and that might at least eliminate problems with the board. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:10:03 +0700 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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suid root, it needs root priviliges to do this. You can also start v4l-conf from a terminal and check the messages it prints.

That gives following info. Looks like you hit pay dirt. Do not know how to solve that but that is a later problem.

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key can't open x11 display :0.0

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As a short term measure enter the command at the terminal they try running xawtv again. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:01:20 +0700 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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Exactly the same information pops up at this command. Up to the last jota ;-( Nothing changed.

Just so that I can be quite clear what is happening - you enter, and you see "access control disabled, clients can connect from any host". You then run xawtv and see the "ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error" ? What do you see when you run v4l-conf from the terminal - do you still see : Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key can't open x11 display :0.0 Under the current implementations of X, even root cannot access your screen without permission. I was working on the assumption that the suid nature of v4l-conf was, therefore, the problem. I really would expect at least that problem to be solved by xhost +. Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

The Xawtv starts okay, has a configuration file and no, I had not tried out the brightness, but it also does not make a difference. Down here we have PAL and I am able to get the sound of the TV stations. We have only 10 and I get them all. After the aiee: error loops it is resetting chip. No TV ;-(

Well, can you post your section of modules.conf which affects the video? I have: alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv options bttv autoload=0 card=0 radio=0 bttv_debug=2 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 You probably don't want this i2c-algo-option, but your modules.conf should look similar.