Re: tv cards and alphas

[Daniel Potts <danielp cse unsw edu au>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Eric Jones wrote:

>   I've been having an interesting problem with tv cards and my pc164. I'm
> running kernel 2.2.13. I tell it to compile bttv and video4linux (as
> modules) but I'm getting wierd reverse video under xawtv. It displays with
> good video for a little while, and then maybe a scene on tv changes and it
> switches to reverse, then vice-versa. And the only way that I can seem to
> get all of my channels is to tell the tuner that it's a PAL_I and then
> tell xawtv that it's NTSC. 
>   These problems occur with both the avermedia tv98 card and the hauppage
> wintv go card. 
>   Has anyone seen anything like this?

Hmm.. I get even weirder problems. Sometime after 2.2.3, bttv hasnt worked
for me at all, compiled as modules. It complains about init_mm not being
defined (unresolved). Maybe I need a clean tree :) Try an older kernel.
The early 2.2.x's used to work great with bttv.