[gentoo-amd64] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'm having a somewhat similar issue with the BT878 card I have in my gentoo box. Here are pastebin results of varius infomation, hope I give all the necessary info. dmesg -> http://rafb.net/p/MVIiSg62.html xorg.conf -> http://rafb.net/p/dXz4Ry49.html

[gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Duncan
Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:07:28 -0500: > xawtv gives me a window and when I right click, I can choose what format > and region and all that jazz, but I get no picture. > > tvtime produces the following error: [reformatted

[gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Duncan
Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:21:40 -0500: > Wow ... quit a bit to absorb ... Forgive me if these next set of > questions sound a bit dumb ... Not dumb at all. Rather, they demonstrate some serious thought and effort going i

[gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Duncan
Chris Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:55:56 -0500: > And I get a GREEN overlay. But he minute I change something else, it > goes back to a black display and stays there. Well, green overlay, that IS certainly progress. You apparently

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow ... quit a bit to absorb ... Forgive me if these next set of questions sound a bit dumb ... Will kaffeine and/or kmplayer know to use my /dev/video0 device? I tried getting (g)mplayer to do this and for the life of me, I could not figure out how t

Re: [gentoo-amd64] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, you should remove 'v4l' from xorg.conf. It usually makes problems worse. also, in xawtv, try to set 'dga' and 'grabdisplay' instead of 'overlay'. and for your card 'autodetect' never worked for me - you should give the module the correct card= option. -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-amd64] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 16. Februar 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: > ### >## oh and: ReiserFS: hdh1: warning: CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is set ON ReiserFS: hdh1: warning: - it is slow mode for debugging. why don't you turn debugging of? it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xawtv: I know where to set grabdisplay, but I don't see an option for dga. Module: I will have to recompile my kernel for that as modules. When I had it as modules, it wasn't creating /dev/video0 xorg.corf: I'll fix v4l asap. reiserfs:

Re: [gentoo-amd64] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Drake Donahue
- Original Message - From: "Chris Brennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] RE: BT8x8 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xawtv: I know where to set grabdisplay, but I don't see an op

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-16 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan thanks for the heads up on kmplayer and kaffine. I'm leaning towards the fact that I've got the device built into my kernel and I can't specify exactly what kind of card it is. So either later tonight or tomorrow sometime I will rebuild my kern

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Brennan
OK ... I think I've made a little more progress, but I think I am still missing something I switched to the Open Source ATI Drivers. But there are issues with this :/ 1) I can't play Doom3, so if I want to, I have to switch drivers are restart X but that's not the bigger issue. tvtim