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On Wednesday 12 May 2004 17:56, you wrote:
> > OK - I'm using Mandrake 10.0 Official with 2.6.3-7mdk kernel.
> > Kwintv does not start
> > TVTime starts, but setupmenus do not allow me to select anything.
> > Xawtv crashes X, to a blank screen, and it is impossible even to
> > get to a console screen.
>
> Thats sounds really weird.
> When you start xawtv like that on a commandline, what output do you
> get: xawtv -hwscan
>
> I get something like that:
> /dev/video0: OK [ -device /dev/video0 ]
> type : v4l2
> name : DC30plus[0]
> flags: overlay capture
> ---END---
>
This is xawtv-3.91, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.3-7mdk)
looking for available devices
port 67-67
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : ATI Radeon Video Overlay
/dev/v4l/video0: OK [ -device /dev/v4l/video0 ]
type : v4l2
name : DC10plus[0]
flags: overlay capture
> What colordepth do you use in your X11 configuration ?
> If you use anything else then 16 xawtv sometimes fails, you have to
> tell xawtv than the colordepth you use with the -b option.
>
OK - I'm using 24, so I tried the flag with the following command.
> The most interresting thing would be what happens when you start it
> that way: xawtv -noxv
>
Very interesting :-) Black screen, message from monitor saying it is
receiving no signal so going to sleep, and no way back to either X or a
console.
> Do you have any usefull messages in you messages file (usually found
> in /var/log/)
> The last few lines should help here.
> In X11 start in a commandline "tail -f /var/log/messages", and than
> look what appears when you try to start the TV applications.
>
I think the relevant lines are:
May 12 18:18:15 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5433]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:18:15 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5433]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:18:15 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5433]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:18:15 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5433]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:18:15 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5433]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:18:15 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5433]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:18:55 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5439]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:18:55 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5439]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:18:55 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5439]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:18:55 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5439]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:18:55 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5439]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:18:55 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5439]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:19:57 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(v4l-conf,
pid=[5448]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:19:57 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(v4l-conf,
pid=[5448]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:19:57 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5447]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:19:57 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv,
pid=[5447]), users(+)=1
May 12 18:19:57 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv,
pid=[5447]), users(-)=0
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x33424752 (RGB3)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x33424752 (RGB3)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x0 ( )
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x59455247 (GREY)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x50323234 (422P)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x32315559 (YU12)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x0 ( )
May 12 18:19:58 david last message repeated 24 times
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x33424752 (RGB3)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x0 ( )
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x59455247 (GREY)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: v4l_set_format() - video
buffer size (128 kB) is too small
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x50323234 (422P)
May 12 18:19:58 david kernel: DC10plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT -
unknown/unsupported format 0x32315559 (YU12)
May 12 18:21:15 david syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
So - at least part of the problem is the buffer size being too small.
Can you remind me how to deal with that?
What do you make of the unknown/unsupported format statements?
> BTW: Is there any update aviable for you X11 server, or xawtv for MDK
> 10.0 ?
>
I have all the updates available - I keep up to date.
> Have you tried downloading the RPM form SF:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5776&package_id
>=5823&release_id=214768
>
If we can't solve this one, I'll try that.
> That one usually works. But make soure that you remove before the
> other rpm.
>
> BTW: If you use a rpm that comes with the distribution, things like
> mp2enc and mpeg2enc are usually not included. Because of licence
> fees.
>
OK - are you saying that they are included in the SF download?
Anne
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