Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:58:47 -0500, Robert Braddock wrote: >> You can try with another programs to view the TV, like Videolan, Me-TV >> or even Kaffeine :-? > > I don't know how to make anything else talk to the Xvideo overlay > device. The only mentions I've found were things NOT using it, or o

Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-06 Thread Robert Braddock
> You can try with another programs to view the TV, like Videolan, Me-TV > or even Kaffeine :-? I don't know how to make anything else talk to the Xvideo overlay device. The only mentions I've found were things NOT using it, or only using a /dev/video0 type device. Kaffeine, vlc, and me-tv don't

Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-03 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:43 -0500, Robert Braddock wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:59:54PM -0500, Robert Braddock wrote: >> Now, it seems as though my overlay device just isn't there. Kdetv says >> there's no video device at all and xawtv reports "no usable video port >> found". > > FYI, so

Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-02 Thread Robert Braddock
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:59:54PM -0500, Robert Braddock wrote: > Now, it seems as though my overlay device just isn't there. Kdetv > says there's no video device at all and xawtv reports "no usable > video port found". FYI, someone on the xorg list gave me a tip to put "radeon.modeset=0" on the

Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-02 Thread Robert Braddock
> > Now, it seems as though my overlay device just isn't there. Kdetv > > says there's no video device at all and xawtv reports "no usable > > video port found". > If the card used to work and now suddenly stopped creating the "/dev/ > video0" device, I would look into "dmesg" log, maybe there is

Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:25:01 -0500, Robert Braddock wrote: > I have a Radeon 8500 video card which I use as video-in for my computer > to act as my tv monitor. Sometime since the Summer, this has stopped > working and I am having no luck finding any helpful information by > searching. Most searc

Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-01 Thread Robert Braddock
I have a Radeon 8500 video card which I use as video-in for my computer to act as my tv monitor. Sometime since the Summer, this has stopped working and I am having no luck finding any helpful information by searching. Most searches just refer to the old GATOS project, which hasn't done anything