On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:12:09 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony Boom wrote: > > Hello Nick, > > > > Sunday, January 16, 2005, 9:15:46 PM, you wrote: > > > > NR> ie what card does your monitor plug into? > > > > Oh, silly me, sorry! > > > > Radeon 9600xt > > > In that case, the error message is correct; unless you are using the > closed-source ATI binary drivers (emerge ati-drivers), you do not have > the Video Overlay capacity necessary to display the TV-tuner images. > > You should wait before installing the ati-drivers, though-- the release > date for the new and hopefully vastly improved drivers is tomorrow > (Monday the 17th), err thats not tomorrow, its today :-) (NZ, first to get the sunshine) >and it may take a short while for 1) the ebuild to > show up and 2) the servers to calm down (a lot of people are waiting > anxiously for these drivers, me included). however in this case i think Tony should try and get bttv going before he changes anything else. if there is no overlay available can i suggest trying xawtv with the option that disanles overlay. i think it is in the man page, bt i don't have access to the linux box tocheck. man xawtv should find it. > > Holly > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
