On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 18:43 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 01:39, Jeff Vian wrote: > > 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 have FC5 installed, but it's on the other machine, which is only has a > 500MHZ cpu, so is unlikely to work. I do have a bit of spare harddrive space > on the 1.3GHZ machine, so could put FC5 on that. I'm only on dialup, but do > have all the FC5 updates saved from /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive > on the same machine, but it means FTP'ing them to the 1.3Gig machine. > > The real question is Jeff, is what has gone wrong with Tvtime? I remove it > using synaptic from either FC2 or Kubuntu. Now it's gone, and only the > downloaded RPM, or DEB package remains in /var/cache/apt/archives. I checked > for remaining files that hadn't been removed when I uninstalled it, but found > nothing. In theory I should be able to reinstall it using the rpm, or deb > that's in /var/cache/apt/archives, and get a new start for Tvtime, just like > it had never been installed. Clearly though Tvtime has been interacting with > other files, so everytime I reinstall it these other files it was interacting > with are showing Tvtimes display just as it was before I uninstalled it, > which is some sort of corrupted display. > Did you also delete the ~/.tvtime directory where tvtime shores its personal configs? I have 2 files in there, stationlist.xml and tvtime.xml It is safe to delete that directory because the first time tvtime is started it will recreate that one. And, no I do not have an audio jumper installed for the Wintv Go card in that machine. I do have another card (pdhdtv 5500) that uses an audio cable to the line in on my sound card in a different machine. > The card isn't broken, as it still works on that other OS. I even tried > installing the Win TV 2000 viewer onto wine in FC2. It installed OK, but > there is a little, or big problem, however you want to view it, with a .dll > when I try to run it. I've never been too happy with wine. Stuff will work > that I'm not too bothered with, but the stuff I want to work won't. I'm not > knocking wine, as it must be one hell of a problem getting Windoze apps to > work on wine for the wine developers. > > Out of interest. Which chip is your Win TV GO using? I will have to look at that this weekend. > > > > 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. > > My point was that with FC5 the drivers for my card are already available. With FC2 they are not and you have to jump through hoops to get everything working. > Nigel.
