This is relatively off-topic but I figure maybe someone here would be able to
give me some ideas.
I bought a 3dfx VoodooTV 200 PCI about a month before they went belly-up.
The windows drivers provided with the card were absolutely horrid. The
application that was required to use the TV tuner frequently crashed, took
minutes to load, and roughly 30 - 60 seconds to change a channel. WIth
several releases in the weeks that followed, the quality vastly improved but
was far from perfect. Then 3dfx went belly up and developpment (apparently)
stopped. Now I'm left with a card that (barely) functions only in Windows
with no linux support.
Here's where the catch is. To save costs, to make updates easier, and to
supposedly provide superior picture quality, 3dfx implemented a TV tuner
completely on silicon as opposed to the traditional silver tuner box. This
makes it incompatible with virtually every other TV tuning application out
there. My question is this, does anyone have a VoodooTV and in the same
situation as me? Does anyone know of current development being done to
support the VoodooTV on linux? (If so I'd be interested in helping out) --
Dave
On Thursday 26 April 2001 18:54, you wrote:
> Hello Folks!,
> I'm having trouble getting xawtv to function. I am using a Hauppauge
> WinTVGo (bt878) and an ATI Radeon 32DDR under XFree86-4.0.3. xawtv runs,
> and I get sound, but there is no picture, and there are error messages like
> so:
>
> [chas@magnatron chas]# xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.43, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.3-20mdksmp)
> image format list for port 42
> 0x32595559 (YUY2) packed
> 0x59565955 (UYVY) packed
> 0x32315659 (YV12) planar
> 0x30323449 (I420) planar
> Xv: using port 42 for hw scaling
> x11: 1024x768, 32 bit/pixel, 4096 byte/scanline, DGA
> v4l: 1024x768, 32 bit/pixel, 4096 byte/scanline
> wmhooks: netwm
> v4l: oops: got sigalarm
> ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Interrupted system call
> grab: no match for: 384x288 16 bit YUV 4:2:2 (packed)
> ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=5,size=64x48): Device or resource busy
> ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=4,size=64x48): Device or resource busy
> ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=1,size=64x48): Device or resource busy
> grab: no match for: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
> grab: no match for: 384x288 16 bit YUV 4:2:2 (packed)
> grab: no match for: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
>
>
> Further, I get error messages in the system logs like so:
>
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
> tuner: TV freq (0.-6) out of range (44-958)
> bttv0: irq: SCERR risc_count=17f56008
> bttv0: irq: SCERR risc_count=17f56008
> bttv0: irq: SCERR risc_count=17f56008
> bttv0: irq: SCERR risc_count=17f56008
> bttv0: irq: SCERR risc_count=17f56008
> bttv0: aiee: error loops
> bttv0: resetting chip
>
>
> That one repeats numerous times. Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> -Charles
