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MCSpan20
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 Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: How To for ATI TV Wonder VE |
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Anybody know where one is? Just got one from a friend a don't have any idea where to start.
Thanks.
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nacs
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| There's a number of posts in this forum that detail the steps (that's how I got mine working). Give the search function a go. |
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MCSpan20
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Man I've searched and searched and honestly this is the first time anybody's told me to go search cause I usually search plenty but It's possible I missed something. Most of what I saw was for some other kind of card.
I will keep searching but If you remember any specific articles or threads that helped you out they would be greatly appreciated!
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nacs
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: |
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There really isn't much to it actually. You make sure Video4linux and BTTV support is compiled in as modules in the kernel. Then you modprobe "tuner" and "bttv" modules. Then fire up xawtv or tvtime and do a station search.
Oh and I also have this in my modules.conf file for the ATI TV Wonder VE that I have:
| Code: | options bttv card=64
options tuner type=2 |
I think that's pretty much it really. |
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linuxkrn
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MCSpan20
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 4:48 am Post subject: |
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linuxkrn,
I followed the tutorial you linked to but now I am getting an error when I try to run XawTV.
When I run xawtv it spits out the following:
| Code: | This is xawtv-3.86, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.7-gentoo-r11)
WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support.
WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>")
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
ioctl: VIDIOC_OVERLAY(int=1): Invalid argument
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Then continues to spit out that last line whenever I hit an arrow key or move the window around.
I have the following section in my XF86Config-4 config file:
| Code: | # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection |
And so I tried commenting out that Option line. X starts fine but when I run xawtv my screen goes dead and I have to physically restart my machine. 
If anyone knows what's goin on that would be really cool!!
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DaiTengu
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| MCSpan20 wrote: |
And so I tried commenting out that Option line. X starts fine but when I run xawtv my screen goes dead and I have to physically restart my machine.
If anyone knows what's goin on that would be really cool!! |
I have the same problem, although I can just kill X with ctl-alt-backspace.
did you ever get this fixed? |
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