Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-19 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Nope, not there under RH7.0 and Suse6.4. All the files are cicra > 1998/99. Ah. You might want to read my X-Operating-System header. That'd be it. :) [ ie. Linux 2.4 ] - Jeff -- You know a French woman is faking it when she screams, "I would like the table nea

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-19 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > Just checking. CARDLIST is from a debian distro? > > No, it's from the standard kernel tarballs; ought to be in kernel source > packages for your distro too. Nope, not there under RH7.0 and Suse6.4. All the files are cicra 1998/99. If you want to go beyond the basi

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Just checking. CARDLIST is from a debian distro? No, it's from the standard kernel tarballs; ought to be in kernel source packages for your distro too. - Jeff -- Perl: Making thick Windows admins redundant since 1987. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-18 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > > * /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST > > > > > > * Try 37 and 38, and tuner=7 > > > > What is 37 and 38, > > The card type, re: CARDLIST. You have to pass parameters to the bttv module > so it knows what to do with the card. tuner.o gets type

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv --SUCESS well sort of

2001-06-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
> PS: is it possible to get sound w/o doing it this way ?? ie sound thru the > pci bus. Hmm. Um. Works for me? :) I must admit, I haven't entirely worked this bit out yet myself, but it works if I lsmod * in the /lib/modules/blah/kernel/drivers/media/video directory. At some stage, I will hav

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv --SUCESS well sort of

2001-06-13 Thread Mehmet Ozdemir
> Thanks Jeff and everyone else, > > Now how do I get sound going, > Time to give myself an upper cut, I forgot to plug the tv-cards sound out into the sound cards audio-in. PS: is it possible to get sound w/o doing it this way ?? ie sound thru the pci bus. Regards Mehmet Ozdemir -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv --SUCESS well sort of

2001-06-13 Thread Mehmet Ozdemir
Mehmet Ozdemir wrote: >Hello All, > >I just got a Pixel View bt878 tv/fm tuner yesterday for $40.00 >(bargin!!) and I'm trying to get it to work. > Thanks Jeff and everyone else, Now how do I get sound going, this what I have in modules.conf alias char-major-81 bttv options bttv card=37 option

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said: >X4 can also look after your capture card with the "v4l" module, I am curious -- please clag the relevant line from your configs to the list ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg This port may thing it's fo

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Mehmet Ozdemir said: >Can somebody send me there modules.conf and .xawtv file. I'm using >xawtv 3.51 and the bttv driver that come stock with rh7.1. This is from my Debian sid (kernel 2.4.5) but shouldn't make a difference -- they worked for 2.2.19 as well. The .xawt

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
Most tv capture cards need a really strong signal. They have virtually no ability to amplify or filter whats coming down the line. Can i recommend that if you are in a poor location (like me), you take a trip to tricky dickies or jaycar (etc) and buy some signal boosting and filtering gear. If yo

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> > * /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST > > > > * Try 37 and 38, and tuner=7 > > What is 37 and 38, The card type, re: CARDLIST. You have to pass parameters to the bttv module so it knows what to do with the card. tuner.o gets type=7, bttv.o gets card=37 or 38 (at leas

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Mehmet Ozdemir
> Check out: > > * /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST > > * Try 37 and 38, and tuner=7 What is 37 and 38, > > * Have a peek at my xawtv file at: http://perkypants.org/misc/xawtv > Will do, hopefully I'll be up and watching tonight. --

Re: [SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I just got a Pixel View bt878 tv/fm tuner yesterday for $40.00 > (bargin!!) and I'm trying to get it to work. That's funny, there must have been quite a few SLUGgers at the Rocks Markets this weekend - all finding BT8x8 cards! ;) > I've read thru the slug archives w/o success. (When I got m

[SLUG] Getting a bt878 to work with xawtv

2001-06-12 Thread Mehmet Ozdemir
Hello All, I just got a Pixel View bt878 tv/fm tuner yesterday for $40.00 (bargin!!) and I'm trying to get it to work. I've read thru the slug archives w/o success. I think everything set right but I just get static (i'm using rabbit ears atm, but will hook the real antenna tonight) Can somebo