Big thanks to all those who volunteered to help out w/ suggestions so promptly...
People were mainly talking about hardware, so I tried the TV card in another vanilla (RH7.1) box of mine and it seemed to work a treat :) So, it seems there's definitely something funny w/ my (S3) 3D Blaster Savage 4 (doesn't allow direct memory access??). One poss solution may have been to view xawtv remotely, but I can't work out how to configure xauth ...and now it's too late at night to learn :) Neither does it work using vncserver/vncviewer w/ default win manager. I tried putting the TV card back in the rogue box, but swapped the video card out. That seems to have solved the hangs, but now the picture's dissapeared! :( I've tried using the /etc/modules.conf options from Roland (thanks :) and tried other options (eg from bttv mini howto), etc, but still no picture. Usually it's either black or blue or weird patterns. Nothing interesting in /var/log/messages. I hope this is drawing to a conclusion and it's now easy for you experienced TV-viewers out there to solve the final piece of the puzzle :) many thanks again, Mark _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
