Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-31 Thread Col
As well as tvtime I have tried xawtv & zapping. Both the last 2 scramble the screen and lock up the kbd requiring a reboot do you tell them which device to use? IIRC xawtv tries to use /dev/video0 by default, whereas your device is /dev/v4l/video0, try telling it to use the right device.

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 13:14 +1200, Barry wrote: > Starting again on this problem. > > The 1st tv card I got proved to have a faulty chip in it. The current 1 > works fine in windows98. > > tvtime from mandrake 10 appears to be faulty. I downloaded tvtime0.99 > from mandriva and installed it + the

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-30 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Barry I had a myriad of problems with my saa7134 card and finally got it to work with the following: add to /etc/modules.d/saa7134: options saa7134 card=26 tuner=5 oss=1 dsp_nr=1 mixer_nr=1 oss_rate=32000 (Your card number is likley to be different and should be found from the output of dmes

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-30 Thread Barry
Starting again on this problem. The 1st tv card I got proved to have a faulty chip in it. The current 1 works fine in windows98. tvtime from mandrake 10 appears to be faulty. I downloaded tvtime0.99 from mandriva and installed it + the lib it required. It loads and starts but displays the msg '

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 19:06 +1200, Barry wrote: > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:51:41 +1200 > >Barry wrote: > > > > > > > >>The chip is a Phillips SAA7135HL on a Dick Smith Card and info on the > >>web indicates that it runs without problems with Mandrake 10 > >>This is a new

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-29 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:51:41 +1200 Barry wrote: The chip is a Phillips SAA7135HL on a Dick Smith Card and info on the web indicates that it runs without problems with Mandrake 10 This is a new installation on a newly formatted ptn lspci finds the card and module saa7133

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:51:41 +1200 Barry wrote: > The chip is a Phillips SAA7135HL on a Dick Smith Card and info on the > web indicates that it runs without problems with Mandrake 10 > This is a new installation on a newly formatted ptn > lspci finds the card and module saa7133 is loaded with o

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-27 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: Not on my system it doesn't. It seems to have been removed in 0.9.13 - time flies like an arrow (1) I believe that tvtime should still run, but anyway xawtv is the best way to test one of these cards. Sure is, or one of the other default install tv programs. Cheers, Rex

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 07:26 +1200, Rex Johnston wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >>[2] 3204 > >>Running tvtime 0.9.12. > >>Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml > >>Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml > > > > > > Is the next bit relevant? what has wine to do with it? wha

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-27 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: [2] 3204 Running tvtime 0.9.12. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml Is the next bit relevant? what has wine to do with it? whay are you loading wine? [EMAIL PROTECTED] barry]# wine: Win32 LoadLibrary failed t

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-27 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:51 +1200, Barry wrote: > I have just succeeded in getting a tv tuner running under win98 (sss) > I tested with windows to make sure it worked after returning 1 with a > dead tuner chip. > > The chip is a Phillips SAA7135HL on a Dick Smith Card and info on the > web i

tvtuner problems

2005-07-27 Thread Barry
I have just succeeded in getting a tv tuner running under win98 (sss) I tested with windows to make sure it worked after returning 1 with a dead tuner chip. The chip is a Phillips SAA7135HL on a Dick Smith Card and info on the web indicates that it runs without problems with Mandrake 10 T