My TV tuner card is only semi-working. Sometimes it works fine,
sometimes it gets the colors wrong (flesh tones are blue), and
sometimes it only displays a black window. The only way to make the
picture get better is to reboot, so far as I've found.
I'm feeding the card a good signal on RF channel 3, on the composite
video jack, and on the S-Video jack. It works equally unreliably on
all three inputs (analog signal quality aside).
The app I'm working with so far is xawtv. I haven't gotten a
picture at all using MythTV yet, though I've gotten some snow... (-:
It looks like the driver and/or app isn't reinitializing the card
correctly. rmmod/modprobe bttv doesn't help. The tuner only works
with "modprobe bttv tuner=2", but I found that with trial and error --
I don't know what tuner=2 does, beyond the sketchy description
in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options.
tuner=n tuner type, see CARDLIST for a list.
What TV apps should I try? What debugging tools should I know about?
What 'Net resources should I consult?
Gentoo is the distro, and 2.6.7 is the kernel.
Thanks...
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Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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