Re: tv cards and alphas

[Eric Bohm <bohm gate csgeeks org>]

>>>>> "Dan" == Daniel Potts <danielp@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

    Dan> 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?

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

I haven't seen bttv work properly for any kernel later than 2.2.7.  I
get the same init_mm problem you describe.  bttv failure is the only
thing keeping me from the newer 2.2s.