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Need to start up xawtv first before image in ZM
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:19 pm
by byte
I now have it running
on reboot using SuSE 10 I find I have to start off xawtv and change it over to composite 1 then I find the zm window shows the image, it's also true if I change from modect to monitor again I have to reset xawtv and then it comes into the zm window, is this something I done or not done?
Had a search but couldn't find nothing.
Thanks again for any help!
Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:46 pm
by jameswilson
No i had this once too and i think its something to do with a new card. Thats not fully supported by your kernel as i did a kernel update and it went away. Im sure i read about running xaw as a crom job on startup before zm to set the parameters though. But i think all can be passed via options in the bttv driver
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:06 pm
by byte
Hi James,
Thing is when I tested this out with the LiveCd I didn't need to start xawtv it worked out of the box as it should do. Not sure what kernel it's using but I'm using kernel...
2.6.13-15-default
Don't suppose you remeber how you got it working did you? or a script you used to start off xawtv?
Many thanks for you reply!
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:19 pm
by jameswilson
no i cant, sorry mate ps the kernel of the live cd is a 2.6.7.... so im suprised you have an issue now. Script wise i didnt i loaded it on startup of the desktop, what version of zm you rnning
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:23 pm
by byte
Running the latest 1.22.1
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:24 pm
by jameswilson
ok whats your modprobe.conf and how have you set your monitor?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:43 pm
by byte
Have set the modprobe.conf...
alias char-major-81 bttv
options bttv gbuffers=4 card=2
Card is a...
Name: BT848A video (Hauppauge (bt848)
I've set the monitor up in 1024x768 and the camera which is set to 320x240 RGB 24
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:49 pm
by jameswilson
How do you know your cards a 2? what hauppage is it?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:58 pm
by byte
Because I looked at this link...
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Cardlist.BTTV
And the name when i do a zmu -d /dev/video0 -q -v Showed me it was a...
Name: BT848A video (Hauppauge (bt848)
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:08 pm
by jameswilson
well i have a haupage and its also an osprey 100 (card=82) i think. What does the card look like?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:26 pm
by byte
The card looks like has one white box type thingy where the tuner is, and 2 black chips, one chip below the white box has BT 484KPF and the other black chip to the right of the white tuner box has MSP3410D
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:03 pm
by maciekc
byte wrote:The card looks like has one white box type thingy where the tuner is, and 2 black chips, one chip below the white box has BT 484KPF and the other black chip to the right of the white tuner box has MSP3410D
Take a look here:
http://www.bttv-gallery.de/
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:07 pm
by jameswilson
lol id check you card number is right first as it appears that xaw is changing the channel correctly but bttv cant itself. Once you get the correct card setup it should be fine. Like i said i have a hauppage thing and installed it as they said with their card number but it wouldnt work correctly, the inputs were mixed up etc. Once i set it to osprey 100 its been great since
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:59 pm
by byte
Great site maciekc, thanks... Here is mine...
James, I'll give that a go tomorrow, thanks again!
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:11 am
by byte
No luck changing to card=83 but James as you say your's is a different card interesting when I go lspci it show the card as a Brooktree BT 848 but I cant find that card in the list of card's so maybe I need new one, just out of interest which one's have you found to work out the box?