[gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers SOLVED: is this a bug?

2003-08-31 Thread gabriel
i don't understand it. really, i don't. but in a last ditch effort to make my tv work, i recompiled X and xawtv without debug in my use flags... and now i'm watchin' some tv. i had tried everything. i had recompiled my kernel with different options nearly 15 times and nothing. recompiled X

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers (...continued)

2003-08-27 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 27 August, 2003 gabriel wrote: > On August 26, 2003 09:03 pm, Owen Ford wrote: > > vt7 is the virtual terminal that gentoo tells X to use by default. > > so what's a virtual terminal? is that to say it's not reading my "screen" > definitions in my X config? or is this something else? A virt

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers (...continued)

2003-08-27 Thread gabriel
On August 26, 2003 09:03 pm, Owen Ford wrote: > vt7 is the virtual terminal that gentoo tells X to use by default. so what's a virtual terminal? is that to say it's not reading my "screen" definitions in my X config? or is this something else? -- a moment of joy in a lifetime of suffering...

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers(...continued)

2003-08-27 Thread Owen Ford
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:53, gabriel wrote: > so here's the story so far... sadly, it hasn't progressed far at all: > > after some help from my fellow gentoo'ers, i looked into my kernel compilation > and checked the settings. here's what i found (parts i thought to be > unrelated are omitted):

[gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers (...continued)

2003-08-27 Thread gabriel
so here's the story so far... sadly, it hasn't progressed far at all: after some help from my fellow gentoo'ers, i looked into my kernel compilation and checked the settings. here's what i found (parts i thought to be unrelated are omitted): Character devices: I2C support ---> <*> I2C d

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers

2003-08-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:15:58 -0400 gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On August 22, 2003 09:42 pm, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: > > If you recompiled your kernel, you may need to reinstall the > > drm-kernel part of GATOS. It depends on where you copied > > is the drm-kernel part even nesscary?

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers

2003-08-22 Thread Jay Goodman Tamboli
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:15:58PM -0400, gabriel wrote: > On August 22, 2003 09:42 pm, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: > > If you recompiled your kernel, you may need to reinstall the > > drm-kernel part of GATOS. It depends on where you copied > > is the drm-kernel part even nesscary? i had tv work

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers

2003-08-22 Thread gabriel
On August 22, 2003 09:42 pm, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: > If you recompiled your kernel, you may need to reinstall the > drm-kernel part of GATOS. It depends on where you copied is the drm-kernel part even nesscary? i had tv working before without it... > My dumb ass got a All-In-Wonder 9000, s

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers

2003-08-22 Thread donnie berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 August 2003 20:34, gabriel wrote: > granted, using an all-in-wonder card in linux is a pain in the ass, and i > obviously wouldn't make that mistake again, but for now, i'm stuck with it > and i have lost the ability to watch tv on my comp

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers

2003-08-22 Thread Jay Goodman Tamboli
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:34:07PM -0400, gabriel wrote: > 1. installed gentoo from 1.4rc4 cd including kde using various USE flags. > > 2. went to gatos.sourceforge.net, downloaded the latest binary drivers > decompressed the tarball, and copied the drivers into their assigned > directories: /u

[gentoo-user] can't get my tv to work with gatos drivers

2003-08-22 Thread gabriel
granted, using an all-in-wonder card in linux is a pain in the ass, and i obviously wouldn't make that mistake again, but for now, i'm stuck with it and i have lost the ability to watch tv on my computer... anyone care to help? here's the story: 1. installed gentoo from 1.4rc4 cd including kd