Fixed my own problem; replying to my message in case anyone has similar
issues and searches archives.
Problem stemmed from switching from OSS emu10k drivers to OSS i810
on-board audio. Installing ALSA and the ALSA i810 driver seems to have
solved the problem.
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Well, after scouring the NewEgg refurbished bin, I found an inexpensive
A7N8X-X to throw an old Athlon 1400 in, and so my Freevo has a
badly-needed upgrade from the Celeron 300 (overclocked to 450) that I was
using. It's fantastic, but...
...video recording is now wonky. Old recorded episodes
I wound up with an Asus GeForce MX440-based card, and I like it a lot.
I'd like it even better if I could use NVTV, but since I'm running the
thing with no regular CRT and connected to the TV, I'm pretty much stuck
in 640x480... and the nvtv window is too big to fit onto the screen.
Now, I fre
Right now, I have a cron job that fetches TV listings at 3am and updates
the channel logos.
What I can't abide is how long it takes to look at the new schedule the
next time I use the freevo to watch TV--it takes quite a while to use the
new listings (you open the TV guide and get a lovely dial
> how close is the freevo output to a cable tv or sattelite box output?
VERY washed out. There is a noticeable difference when I tune my VCR or
cable box to a channel (both of which look about the same) and switch to
the Freevo. This is particularly noticeable in dark scenes (where the
freevo
Hmm, sounds like a fairly strong recommendation for the G400, even
without the cable (I built my own LIRC reciever, so I don't mind having to
make the cable if I need).
One thing I've heard is that the TV-out-enabled second display on the G400
is "unaccelerated", whatever that means (not sure
OK, after all the great help, I reconfigured the LIRC mouse daemon, got
some other stuff changed, updated via Debian, shut down X, started it up
again, and got a gibberish screen that doesn't give TV-out. Heck, it
doesn't even show up on my (incredibly old) monitor, and it worked like a
champ
In my effort to get much of my CD collection onto my Freevo, I've started
trying to rip CDs, only to discover that my 32x CD-Rom drive is ripping at
1x speed. Obviously I'd like to speed this up. I've tried tweaking
hdparm to turn on DMA, as well as modifying the command line a bit to
cdparan
All is reasonably well with my weak spare-parts Freevo (go go gadget
Celeron overclocked to 450 MHz, just burning up the sky...).
Except for a couple of things. The most irritating is that I'm running
Freevo through SDL/X11, which is fine except that XScreensaver keeps
kicking in. Now I could
The color output from my ol' Rage 128 is still a bit washed-out, and try
as I might, I can't seem to figure out how to change the general color
output of the TV-out (or heck, just the base X-window screen). The xgamma
program works fine, but of course only for gamma.
I've used xvattr and can m
OK, got my Freevo working, but noticed an interesting problem.
When WATCHING TV, the image is fullscreen, no big black borders, nothing.
But when watching recorded video, the image doesn't qute make it to
the edges--I am seeing my window manager to the right and below, just
barely.
Puttin
I'm doing my best to rely entirely on the Freevo, which has been doing,
frankly, awesome work--I got lirc working finally, and it's just about
ready for prime time.
Except one thing--watching TV through the freevo, the colors are
noticeably washed out compared to the cable-box tuner (switching
> You want to use -vo xv
Wasn't working so well. I found the problem (there DID exist a driver
that worked, but in the abandoned "devel" branch of the GATOS CVS tree,
which is suitably obscure; took me a while to find it and I had to start
the build process for the x server to compile 'em, but
OK, finally figured out that I needed to plug the line-out from my
hauppage card into the line-in on my SBLive.
But it still gives no sound.
If I plug it into the MIC IN on my SBLive, I get REALLY REALLY LOUD sound.
Not desired.
Kernel 2.4.22 Debian, using I believe the OSS emu10k1 kernel mod
OK, got video playback working in Linux after some agonizing flailing...
Using an ATI AIW Rage 128 card for video and a separate Hauppage WinTV
card for tuning.
The tricky part was the tv out. I couldn't get it to work AT ALL using
virtually any trick... except that if I booted WITH the tv plu
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