Bernhard Praschinger wrote:
> Hallo
>
Last news are that looking at kern.log I found that I was getting those
messages from xawtv since several days ago, and most likely they're
always been around for months.
The only changes appear on October 27, when I got rid of my GeForce (I
never had xawtv working with it) to use the internal i810 (it works very
fine for me).
Finally, I got xawtv working (with -noxv option), and lavrec was working
as usual. I mean, I had no reason to think that something was going to
break...
From Oct 27, logs show regularly the lines below:
DC30plus[0]: zoran_open(Xorg, pid=[3064]), users(-)=0
DC30plus[0]: UNKNOWN ioctl cmd: 0x800476c6
DC30plus[0]: VIDIOCSPICT - Invalid palette 9
DC30plus[0]: UNKNOWN ioctl cmd: 0x80287610
DC30plus[0]: zoran_close(Xorg, pid=[3064]), users(+)=1
just every time Xorg starts. The lines in my first post concerning xawtv
appear from Oct 27, but xawtv and lavrec have been working fine till Nov
1, the last day I captured an old Video8 (but also some cartoons from a
satellite receiver). On Nov 2, no changes in the kern.logs (the messages
are the same as on preceeding days), but that was the day I could not
get anything but a black movie from both lavrec and xawtv.
I tried to plug the card into another PCI slot, no changes.
I checked that the video composite cable is working, by using it to
connect the videocamera to the TV set in order to playback a tape, and
it works.
I took a look at the card, and I could not notice any damage, though it
could well be anyway.
At present, I suspect that the RCA plug for the video composite input of
the card is damaged. I should try the S-Video plug, but it seems
difficult to find a cable that converts RCA to S-Video. At least, in all
of the stores I know, I could not find one. I should made it by myself,
I only I knew how to do it.
Any other hints?
Best regards to all.
>> I've using my DC30+ very intensively for a long time, until yesterday:
>> in fact, today it's not working any longer.
> Just the normal question:
> You have a valid signal. The input of the card is correct.
> Yo uhave tried the card in another computer. And you have tried a
> different card in the same computer ?
>
>> The kernel seems to be aware of it, as usual, but when I start xawtv I
>> get a black screen and the following messages in dmesg:
> Most if the time, I would say you have a problem within the input
> signal, or the selected input. Tried to measure the input signal with a
> scope ?
> Have you tried unloading the driver and loading every module manually ?
>
>> DC30plus[0]: zoran_open(v4l-conf, pid=[3393]), users(-)=0
>> DC30plus[0]: zoran_close(v4l-conf, pid=[3393]), users(+)=1
>> DC30plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv, pid=[3392]), users(-)=0
>> DC30plus[0]: UNKNOWN ioctl cmd: 0x80585600
>> DC30plus[0]: zoran_close(xawtv, pid=[3392]), users(+)=1
>> DC30plus[0]: zoran_open(xawtv, pid=[3392]), users(-)=0
>> DC30plus[0]: UNKNOWN ioctl cmd: 0xc0cc5615
> [...]
>> DC30plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT - unknown/unsupported format 0x0 ()
>> (the last message repeated several times...)
> I get the last line in combination with:
> DC30plus[0]: VIDIOC_S_FMT - type=1, size=384x288, fmt=0x0 ()
> But only when I use xawtv. The log you have attached seems to be the
> output when you try to run xawtv. and not when you load the driver.
>
> The log when loading the driver should start with that:
> MJPEG[0]: find_zr36057() - card DC30plus detected
> DC30plus[0]: Initializing i2c bus...
> ..
> DC30plus[0]: i2c_client_register() - driver id = 1005
> ...
> Detecting guests activity, please wait...
> Guests: 0x10 0x21 0x10 0xb2 0x10 0x10 0x11
> ...
> DC30plus[0]: enable_jpg(IDLE)
> DC30plus[0]: interrupts received: queue_state=0/0/0/0: no interrupts
> detected.
>
> [...]
>> Also, it doesn't capture anything with lavrec. I rebooted several
>> times, but nothing changes.
> When you look at the card it looks ok, no burnt IC ?
> Damaged connector or so ?
> I had a sound card where the line out broke after some years, soldering
> it together helped here.
>
>> What's happening? I swear I made no changes in the system, nor in the
>> scripts I'm used to use to capture. I cannot capture from videocamera,
>> nor from satellite receiver. I did it yesterday night for the last time.
> Strange.
>
>> Any help will be very much appreciated, I'm a bit desperate!
> I have a spare DC30 in my MAC, I use from time to time. And I have in my
> PC/Linux box a Buz and a DC30. That is my "backup" plan. If one card
> fails that should not cause that much trouble, and makes testing easier.
>
>
> auf hoffentlich bald,
>
> Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/bernhard
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