FC3+ Hauppauge WinTV+dual head video

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 00:36 -0600, Paul Almquist wrote:
> Hi all--
> 
> I have a Hauppauge WinTV model 190 tv tuner card (Bt878 chipset) on my 
> dualhead FC3 system.  My video card is a Matrox g400 and uses the Matrox 
> mgadriver-4.1 driver from the Matrox website.  Screen resolution is 1024x768 
> on each screen.   My kernel is 2.6.10-1.770_FC3.
> 
> The tv card works fine (once I found the right tuner number--39) with both 
> TVtime and kdetv when the window is on the left hand screen.  If I move the 
> window to the right hand screen the video goes blank (solid blue with TVtime 
> and solid black with kdetv).  If the window sits in the middle, split between 
> the 2 screens, only the part on the right hand screen is blank.  Audio is not 
> effected by window position.

  This used to happen to me under FC1; I only have a hint as to what it
is- I'm not an X programmer (maybe this post will inspire someone who
DOES know to comment).

    There's an X setting...sHm or Xshm?  Some little TLA that was once
optional, then came standard, on Fedora systems.  I'll look into the
preferences and see what I have...

   There it is. There's a preference for Gstreamer settings...don't know
how/if this relates to the standard KDE setup...it's Xv.  Having that
specified helped a _lot_ with such problems.  

   If this isn't enough clue to get ya started, let me know offlist and
I'll send you a copy of my X setup so you can get the details, and
anything else you might need.

   I once used a machine I called "Hydra" with a set of screens on that
same mga driver. For $120 I got three, 19" sync-on-green screens,
cables, video cards and everything.  THAT was fun, though I couldn't
play OpenGL things.  Being able to harness that much real estate was a
blast!  I hope you're having as much fun, on yours.
  
> Paul Almquist
> paul at almquist.name
> Eau Claire, WI  USA

    Eau Claire, aye?  Beauty.  I've not been there in many, many, many
moons.  We went to the Dells several times back in our heyday; the snow,
the trees, the german shepard on the rock...I sure hope I get back up
there one of these days.

    Cheers!
-- 
Those who entrust life and limb to Microsoft deserve neither. -Me, 2005
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