Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Output of xawtv -c /dev/video0 [snip] v4l: open /dev/video0: Permission denied are you in the video group? $ grep video /etc/group and make sure it looks something like video::27:root,jamie you can edit /etc/group with any editor, but be

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi Jaimie, its obviously talking to the tuner ok, so the problems further on (maybe). Did you try and set the setnorm, setinput and setfreqtab values? I have found that some apps (such as gnomemeeting) dont always select the input you want until it eventually dawns on you that its set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is the user a member of the video group, does it work as root? BillK On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not

[gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've been working on this for several days but do not seem to make any progress. I have a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card which is based on the Philips saa7134 chip. I have recomipled my kernel (2.6.12-gentoo-r6) to include the saa7134 module and i2c support as a module. lsmod output : Module

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working? is there a /dev/video/video0? does xawtv -c /dev/video/video0 give any output? On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:48 +1200 (NZST) Jamie Dobbs

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. True, and I always appreciate the help you offer :-) You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working? I cannot tune in to any channels is there a /dev/video/video0? Yes: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
The problem is almost sure to be the tuner card. Try v4ctl with debug set to check for errors when tuning. (you will need xawtv installed) rattus ~ # v4lctl -v 1 setchannel 2 /dev/v4l/video0 vid-open: trying: v4l2-old... vid-open: failed: v4l2-old vid-open: trying: v4l2... v4l2: open v4l2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I get this output: Gir ~ # v4lctl -v 1 setchannel 5 /dev/v4l/video0 vid-open: trying: v4l2-old... vid-open: failed: v4l2-old vid-open: trying: v4l2... v4l2: open v4l2: device info: saa7134 0.2.12 / Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (saa7134) @ PCI::00:05.0 vid-open: ok: v4l2 freq: reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not working? is there a /dev/video/video0? does xawtv -c /dev/video/video0 give any output? Output of xawtv -c /dev/video0 This