On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:42 +0200, nigel henry wrote: > I think I've broken Tvtime twice. On FC2, and then on Kubuntu. > > The TV tuner card is Hauppauge Win TV Express, and has a Conexant Fusion 878a > chip. > Why not try a newer release of the OS? I just installed a WinTV Go card on a box with FC5 and TVTime works flawlessly. I admit that I am in the US and thus using NTSC and not SECAM but that is related to the tuner/driver and not the display. > Tvtime is from Dag's repo, and is version-1.0.2-1.1.fc2.rf > > I put the card in the machine, an Aiii-Friend 1.3GHZ (Celeron) , with 1GB RAM. > Installed Tvtime from Dag's repo onto FC2. > > All I got when running Tvtime was a blue screen, showing a "no signal", > channel numbers, and that it was set for "Television". Channel scanning > produced nothing, even with messing with the menu, changing between PAL, and > SECAM, and changing the frequencies between France, and Europe. > FC5 has tvtime in the core repo (at least for the x86_64 architecture) > I now booted up Kubuntu, on the same machine, and installed Tvtime. Same > situation. > > Right. It's supposed to work on Windoze, so I booted up XP on this machine. > Now I havn't used it for some time, and have Diamond CS's Process Guard > installed on it, so had some problems installing the Tv tuners drivers onto > XP, as Process Guard keeps asking for permission to allow, and this seems to > interrupt the installation of the drivers, resulting in XP giving me a > "Houston I think we have a problem" sort of reply. So I disable Process Guard > (temporarily), then the drivers are installed. Then I continue with > installing the Win TV viewer that comes on the CDROM for the Hauppauge card. > > After some messing with scanning for channels, I find the 3 french channels, > and the 2 belgian channels, plus some sound, and terrible graphics for 2 of > the 4 UK channels that I get in Northern France. > > Right. XP has verified that there is no problem with the card, and can even > get FM radio from this Hauppauge card on XP. > > OK. I know that the card works, the picture isn't fantastic, but that's life. > Now back into FC2. I now play Tvtimes menu like one plays the piano, trying > every option, and this is where I think I've screwed it up, but I am getting > a bit annoyed by now. > > I now have a window for Tvtime. I can change the channels using the up and > down arrows, and they show up in the title bar, but can only see pink and > bluey green horizontal lines. The tab key which should bring up the menu > appears to work, but I can't see it. Pressing "q" clears the unviewable menu, > and pressing "q" again quits Tvtime. > > I've removed Tvtime from the system using synaptic, but when I reinstall it I > get the same as before I uninstalled it. > > I'm at a bit of a loss. It would appear that changes that I made in Tvtime's > menu options, have made changes in files that have nothing to do with TVtime. > > Not that it this is much interest on the list, but on Kubuntu, after messing > with Tvtimes menu, I now have, when I disable signal detect, a green screen > with a very small area (perhaps an eighth of an inch ) of pixel soup at the > top of the screen. Enabling signal detect again, brings me back to the > default screen, showing "no signal" , channel #'s on the left, and > "Television" on the right. > > /sbin/lspci (on FC2) > 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture > (rev 11) > Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 32 (4000ns min, 10000ns max) > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 > Region 0: Memory at e7005000 (32-bit, prefetchable) > Capabilities: <available only to root> > > 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev > 11) > Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV Series > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 32 (1000ns min, 63750ns max) > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 > Region 0: Memory at e7006000 (32-bit, prefetchable) > Capabilities: <available only to root> > > > This is the first part of lsmod, which shows the modules loaded for the > Hauppauge card. > > [djmons@localhost djmons]$ /sbin/lsmod > > Module Size Used by > nls_utf8 2241 0 > udf 75589 0 > tuner 19821 0 > tda9887 12889 0 > tvaudio 20321 0 > bttv 150033 0 > video_buf 21829 1 bttv > i2c_algo_bit 8521 1 bttv > v4l2_common 5825 1 bttv > btcx_risc 4681 1 bttv > i2c_core 21057 5 tuner,tda9887,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit > videodev 9409 1 bttv > > I'd be happy for any suggestions, including, just go upstairs to watch the TV, > but it would be nice to get this card working on something other that > Windoze. > > BTW. On both FC2, and Kubuntu, CPU useage is redlining with TVtime. > > Nigel. > > > >
