TVtime

[Chadley Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:57, Steve Berry wrote:
> I get the same problem, 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Gregory Gulik
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 11:24 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: TVtime
> 
> 
> Does tvtime work for you???
> Every couple minutes the screen goes nearly black and I get the 
> following error on the command line I ran it from:
> 
> videoinput: Can't read frame. Error was: Input/output error (6989).
> 
> In addition the following is logged to syslog:
> 
> May 24 10:21:17 penguin kernel: bttv0: timeout: drop=100 
> irq=44225/44225, risc=378b207c, bits: VSYNC HSYNC OFLOW FDSR
> May 24 10:21:17 penguin kernel: bttv0: reset, reinitialize
> May 24 10:21:17 penguin kernel: bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363).
> 
> Changing the channel fixes it for me.
> 
> I also did used to love xawtv for many of the same reasons you do and 
> was disappointed to find it missing in FC2.  I've tried the FC1 RPM as 
> well as a copy on one of the FC2 repositories and have been able to get 
> it to work at all.  Whenever I run it I get the following:
> 
> Warning: Cannot convert string 
> "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>    Major opcode of failed request:  144 (GLX)
>    Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
>    Serial number of failed request:  492
>    Current serial number in output stream:  492
> 
> If it matters I have an NVIDIA graphics card and am running the "nv" driver.
> 
> 
> Marc Williams wrote:
> > I see that TVtime is now the exclusive FC2 TV application.  That's fine
> > I suppose, and it produces a nice picture, but how do I get it to
> > consume less CPU time?  Right now in its default installation it
> > practically pegs my Athlon 1Ghz processor.  Xawtv on FC1 I used to
> > barely register.
> > 
> > Is there a way to pare down the CPU usage that TVtime seems to need or
> > should I just go back to xawtv?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
I get a partial image and no sound! but the card appears to be working,
I am hunting furiously for something else, to get it to work properly.
What is really freaky is if I run lsmod there is no driver loaded. But
if I modprobe the module the Card starts to work but as I said I only
get a partial picture thats very fuzzy might I add. If I lsmod again the
card is sortof working and there is still no driver listed for it. 
I don't have the PC with me so I can't post my outputs, but I think I
will manage. There isn't a lot of support on TV cards so we must
struggle.
 
Chadley - Linux Rocks
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