Am Sonntag, 09. November 2003 02:13 schrieb Steve Withers: > I'm getting a bit frustrated here. > > Gentoo 1.4 and kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r8 > > I've re-compiled the kernel with Video4Linux and I2C > support....including the Bt848 driver. > > Kcontrol shows a multimedia capture device and Bt848 as character > device '81'. > > There is "bttv" modeule anywhere.....probably becasue I compiled the > driver into the kernel....(right?) >
What does "dmesg|grep bttv" say? > I also installed Xawtv 3.86-r1 (emerge -k xawtv) and it sucked in all > the pre-reqs and was successful. -k? binary packages? > > When i try to start xawtv, I get a segfault saying it failed trying to > convert some font construct..... A segfault just segfaults, but doesn't say anything. Can you please copy/ paste the error message, maybe with -debug 2 > > I've been fiddling with this for days. I'm alsmost to the point where > I'm goign to ditch all the portage items and install all the relevant > tar balls. I've done that before several times and had it working > quickly. > > The things I'm struggling with are: > > 1. How do I verify I actually have the V4L / bttv / Bt848 support > there and properly installed? lsmod. I have tuner 13068 0 tvaudio 18892 0 msp3400 19556 0 bttv 121708 0 video_buf 16132 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 8200 1 bttv btcx_risc 3592 1 bttv All the v4l stuff is compiled as modules Have you changed the access rights of /dev/v4l/* ? > For MythTV - the end goal of all this - emerge/portage was > *great*....but I can't get to the point where anything can see my TV > Card..... so it's sorta irrelevant. :-( You mean portage? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
