Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Am So, den 28.11.2004 schrieb Mike H um 13:19: > >> Recently I did an upgrade of Red Hat 9, finally, on the first operating system of three, on my multiple boot Pentium 3 - 1000. >> This box has a Nvidia Ti-4200 and a WinFast 2000 XP TV card. Wasting alot of time trying to get these running, I'd like to >> point out the solutions, and get a better solution for the TV-card. >> First the Nvidia snafu. Never have or had a problem in Fedora Core 2, my second O.S. or with SuSe with it's fantastic >> YAST component. Doing all the Core 2 Nvidia readme procedures yielded a X-server no start. I finally found a work >> around that worked for me, though I did not get as severe an error. I advise anyone with a similar problem to do solution >> 1 and 2 at the page http://www.dhonnlushine.com/fc3-nvidia.html : > >[ ... ] > >Documented at the Fedora Project site: >http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev > >So no news - pointed to numerous times since FC3 came out. > >> The other ssnafu was with my WInFast 2000 XP which Linux has always misidentified the tuner type. During installation >> of Core3, I let it do my tvcard, which caused the tuner type to be stuck on the value 5 when it should be 2. When using >> modprobe command to change it, dmesg revealed that the request was ignored. Using "rmmod bttv" and the >> "/sbin/modprobe card=34 tuner=2" works to set the tuner from superuser terminal in KDE. Does anyone know how to >> force the bootup to not load tuner=5? IT does not work if inserted in modprobe.conf and rmmod does not work in that file. > >Not really sure what you put into the /etc/modprobe.conf. >"/sbin/modprobe card=34 tuner=2" is a nonsense command. > >options bttv card=34 tuner=2 > >in the /etc/modprobe.conf will set this options for the bttv module if >it is loaded by the system. > >Alexander > > >-- >Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 >legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html >Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp >Serendipity 18:21:46 up 8 days, 13:09, load average: 0.68, 0.50, 0.60 > Yes it works! Embarrassed I made an entry error, as I've done it before correctly in previous fedora Core 1 and 2. Big oops ! Now I get the dmesg: "tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw] tuner: type set to 2 (Philips NTSC (FI1236,FM1236 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0[sw] " Thank you __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
