Stan Brown wrote: > > I am in the process of setting up a new machine. I have a WinTV card in it. I > loaded a minimal stable fileset, and then pointed my apt-get source to the > Progeny > RC1 loaction. The I installed a good bit of stuff, including the 2.4.2 kernel > image > from there. > > How can I finish setting this up so I can use the WinTV card? > > I used dselect to get the xawtv package, and the fbtv package. > > Xawtv wants to link agains teh Xaw3d libraries at version 6.0. I only seem to > have > version 7.0 on my system. > > Fbtv can't find /dev/fd0, which I think is the framebuffer. > > I don;t have to use this package, if there is another choice. I primarily > want to > view/capture tv images (stills).
this prob won't be of much help. but i have run wintv pci cards for a few years under linux now. i recently upgraded my BT848 card to a BT878 because the newer drivers crash my BT848(infact i could only get 1 driver to work the driver/kernel combo from mandrake 7.0). I run xawtv with xfree86 3.3.6. kernel 2.2.18. while xawtv can capture both video and stills i don't use it for that i just use it for a tv. i setup my XF86Config so X would load without a mouse attached. i also set xawtv to load as my windowmanager and configured my xawtvrc to default to channel 3. i firewalled all X stuff from anything but localhost because the machine is on a public ip. when the machine boots(which i havent done since i swapped cards) i run startx(as root) and hit the 'f' key to get xawtv to go fullscreen, then i unplug the keyboard and it runs 24/7. my cable box handles channel changes and stuff. it works very very very very good. rock solid stable. the machine is only a p5-200 64MB too. i could prob get it running without loggin in as root, but i havent gotten around to playing with that. im not goin near linux 2.4 for a while so i cant help ya there. oh and the videocard is a refurb creative labs TNT(16MB) pci card. its a decent card that supports overlays. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
