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Re: tv cards and alphas

Subject: Re: tv cards and alphas
From: Eric Bohm (bohm@gate.csgeeks.org)
Date: Wed Dec 1 13:53:02 1999


>>>>> "Dan" == Daniel Potts <danielp@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

Dan> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Eric Jones wrote:
>> I've been having an interesting problem with tv cards and my
>> pc164. I'm running kernel 2.2.13. I tell it to compile bttv and
>> video4linux (as modules) but I'm getting wierd reverse video
>> under xawtv. It displays with good video for a little while,
>> and then maybe a scene on tv changes and it switches to
>> reverse, then vice-versa. And the only way that I can seem to
>> get all of my channels is to tell the tuner that it's a PAL_I
>> and then tell xawtv that it's NTSC. These problems occur with
>> both the avermedia tv98 card and the hauppage wintv go card.
>> Has anyone seen anything like this?

Dan> Hmm.. I get even weirder problems. Sometime after 2.2.3, bttv
Dan> hasnt worked for me at all, compiled as modules. It complains
Dan> about init_mm not being defined (unresolved). Maybe I need a
Dan> clean tree :) Try an older kernel. The early 2.2.x's used to
Dan> work great with bttv.

I haven't seen bttv work properly for any kernel later than 2.2.7. I
get the same init_mm problem you describe. bttv failure is the only
thing keeping me from the newer 2.2s.

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