Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 18:01, ed tharp wrote: In MDK 9.1, with an NVidia Ti4400 vid card, I have just started having a problem with my winTV card (an early bt878) that as soon as it starts to display it kicks Xfree right down to a re-login. any ideas? to add,,, It works fine when started from a term with 'xawtv' -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 18:01, ed tharp wrote: In MDK 9.1, with an NVidia Ti4400 vid card, I have just started having a problem with my winTV card (an early bt878) that as soon as it starts to display it kicks Xfree right down to a re-login. any ideas? to add,,, It works fine when started from a term with 'xawtv' You can try strace'ing the command and then looking through the log. E.g.: strace xawtv outfile 21 Some things also: rename your preferences file, try a different window manager. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 15:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 18:01, ed tharp wrote: In MDK 9.1, with an NVidia Ti4400 vid card, I have just started having a problem with my winTV card (an early bt878) that as soon as it starts to display it kicks Xfree right down to a re-login. any ideas? to add,,, It works fine when started from a term with 'xawtv' You can try strace'ing the command and then looking through the log. E.g.: strace xawtv outfile 21 Some things also: rename your preferences file, try a different window manager. Look at how the kde menue calls it, then do an strace the same way from the command line. For example from the command line I do mozilla but the MDKKDE menu calls soundwrapper mozilla (or something like that.) so if soundwrapper where bad or having trouble with mozilla it wouldn't show when I run it from the command line. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and what I can do about it? Anne Anne, when you first ran Xawtv did you do it from shell? I ran it first from the menu and it did not open up correctly, but not what you are describing. Try running it from a shell - I did that and it talked grin as it worked and told me what it found on my system. I finally figured out from what it said that I had to do this to start it here: xawtv -device /dev/video0 and it ran fine. Lemme know what happens! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 7:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and what I can do about it? Anne Anne, when you first ran Xawtv did you do it from shell? I ran it first from the menu and it did not open up correctly, but not what you are describing. Try running it from a shell - I did that and it talked grin as it worked and told me what it found on my system. I finally figured out from what it said that I had to do this to start it here: xawtv -device /dev/video0 and it ran fine. Lemme know what happens! :-) Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for input: Webcam ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a0004b Serial number of failed request: 467 Current serial number in output stream: 467 For some reason, also, the view window changes to grab. Is that what you expect? I've never seen this running, so I don't know what to expect, other than a webcam picture. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for input: Webcam ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a0004b Serial number of failed request: 467 Current serial number in output stream: 467 For some reason, also, the view window changes to grab. Is that what you expect? I've never seen this running, so I don't know what to expect, other than a webcam picture. Anne Hmm, that was running it; xawtv -device /dev/video0? Here's what mine looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ xawtv -device /dev/video0 This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(int=0): Interrupted system call ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument and I stopped it with a control c. But it was working fine, picture and all. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 8:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for input: Webcam ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a0004b Serial number of failed request: 467 Current serial number in output stream: 467 For some reason, also, the view window changes to grab. Is that what you expect? I've never seen this running, so I don't know what to expect, other than a webcam picture. Anne Hmm, that was running it; xawtv -device /dev/video0? Here's what mine looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ xawtv -device /dev/video0 This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(int=0): Interrupted system call ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument and I stopped it with a control c. But it was working fine, picture and all. There was no picture on mine, just a dark green screen with a bright green top third. Expanding it to full page shows that there are four ghost images, vertically compressed - and I know it is the camer pictures, because I can make it change by moving around. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
