Well, I got the missing libXxf86dga.so.1 & libXxf86vm.so.1 sorted. Couldn't
find the bloody things, so a little ld'ing was done on the equivalent .a
files to give me what I needed - not terribly right, but don't knock what
works. Now I can watch TV but I can't tune channels. My newbie friend (the
one who has the working TV card :-) ) remembers that he had to find some
tuning program, which he thinks works on the i2c bus, but he has no idea
what it's called. When I start xawtv I get
This is xawtv-3.17, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.18)
visual: id=0x22 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
x11: 1600x1200, 24 bit/pixel, 4800 byte/scanline, DGA
waitpid: No child processes
waitpid: No child processes
v4l: 1600x1200, 24 bit/pixel, 4800 byte/scanline
and presumably the waitpids are when it's trying to fork off a process to do
tuning or something. When I start xawtv, the bttv, i2c and videodev modules
get loaded but tuner does not. However, I have the same problem even after I
manually load tuner. kwintv also does not find any channels. Yesterday I had
RTE-1 only but that may have been a hangover from running it in Windows, and
the card was left tuned to that freq. - the box has been turned off since.
Help me watch TV while I (pretend to) work :-)
Regards,
Niall
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