sdtv reception

[John Wendel]

Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 December 2006 09:16, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I helped put our digital tv transmitter on the air tuesday evening, but
>>> haven't yet rigged a bypass of the dish feed to my tv card, a
>>> pcHDTV-3000.
>>>
>>> What additional programs do I need to be able to watch this new channel
>>> just as easily as I currently watch the old NTSC channels?
>>>
>>> Preferably by just switching an option in tvtime.
>>>
>> Now I have another problem. Antenna is now hooked up, tvtime now see's the 
>> off-air ntsc signal just fine, but not the sdtv on the next adjacent 
>> channel.  I shut it down and fired up kdetv, which promptly crashed while 
>> in the initial configuration menu.  I let X kill it, but it wasn't killed 
>> and I still have the thing running in an un-killable state (I've tried a 
>> dozen or more times now) with several pages of output for process #24973 
>> according to an "lsof|grep kdetv".
>>
>> I can reboot as I was going to test 2.6.20-rc1's new ieee1394 stuff today 
>> also. but whats the procedure for killing this without a reboot?
> ----
> killall kdetv
> 
> (assuming that the process is kdetv)
> 
> or to be really effective...
> 
> killall -9 kdetv
> 
> use signal 9 with caution but it would seem that in this case, it might
> be useful.
> 
> Craig
> 

If the process is really in an "un-killable" state, usually indicated 
by status "D" in top, you won't be able to kill it without a reboot.

Regards,

John