On Friday 10 November 2006 16:44, Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
> Hallo
>
> >>>> I've been working happily with mjpegtools under FC4, using xawtv to
> >>>> monitor input/capture. Now I've installed FC6, and can't get it to
> >>>> work.
> >>>
> >>> What's the output of v4l-conf ? (v4l-conf -c /dev/video0)
> >>
> >> Hello again, Bernhard.
> >>
> >> v4l-conf -c /dev/video0
> >> v4l-conf: using X11 display :0.0
> >> WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
> >> mode: 1280x1024, depth=24, bpp=32, bpl=5120, base=unknown
> >> WARNING: couldn't find framebuffer base address, try manual
> >> configuration ("v4l-conf -a <addr>")
> >> /dev/video0 [v4l2]: configuration done
>
> One thing comes into my mind. You use a color depth of 24, can you
> "downgrade" it to 16 bit. I think I remember problems with 24 bit, and
> 16 bit worked well. That would be a setting in the X11 config.
>
> > Slight adjustment needed - the file that needs editing is v4l.conf, not
> > v4l.config, and the framebuffer address is found in Xorg.0.log.
>
> Where is that file. I didn't find it on my machine.
>
/var/log/Xorg.0.log> > Now I can get sound and vision in xawtv (tvtime still doesn't recognise > > the card, saying it "can't open capture device /dev/video0). > > Does recording work ? > It does - glav has no problem playing it back. > > I've still a bit of a problem, though, as after a few seconds everything > > on the screen starts blinking - though not necessarily continuously. > > What could cause that? > I wonder if it was because the audio level was set too loud? It didn't happen at all this time. The only problem I see now is in the terminal message 'Disk too slow, can not keep pace!'. Perhaps a dma issue? I'll have to look into that. Thanks, as always, for the help. Anne
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