-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 August 2003 20:34, gabriel wrote: > granted, using an all-in-wonder card in linux is a pain in the ass, and i > obviously wouldn't make that mistake again, but for now, i'm stuck with it > and i have lost the ability to watch tv on my computer... anyone care to > help? here's the story: > > 1. installed gentoo from 1.4rc4 cd including kde using various USE flags. > > 2. went to gatos.sourceforge.net, downloaded the latest binary drivers > decompressed the tarball, and copied the drivers into their assigned > directories: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri /drivers /multimedia > > 3. watched some tv (yay!) > > 4. discovered the "debug" use flag, added it to my USE flags and ran: > "emerge --emptytree world" > > 5. repeated step 2. > > 6. typing xawtv at the command prompt give me: > > (~) $ xawtv > This is xawtv-3.88, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-gentoo-r6) > can't open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway > v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory > v4l2: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory > v4l: open /dev/v4l/video0: No such file or directory > no video grabber device available > > > there is no /dev/v4l/anything, but from what i found online, the gatos > drivers don't actually use it, instead they use the X drivers i copied into > those directories, but for some reason, i still have no tv... have you > seen my tv? > > the only thing i have to offer those who might help is the following > snippet from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > > (**) RADEON(0): Using AGP 4x mode > (II) RADEON(0): AGP Fast Write disabled by default > (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default > (II) RADEON(0): Page flipping disabled > (!!) RADEON(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities > of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net. > (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp > (II) resource ranges after preInit: > > everything else works (glxgears a little slow, but i don't play games in > linux anyway). i just miss my tv....
At a guess, I'd say you recompiled your kernel or emerged a new one and forgot video4linux support. But I'm not the expert. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RtUPXVaO67S1rtsRAkLXAKDVpqMM0Vnt9DBFB6wES78iA3UNwACg5oV/ GlqCuluwxl95o7XzeYVMrnM= =N2L+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
