Sound mixer initilzed !
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DGA" missing on display "localhost:0.0".
Using Visual TrueColor
I'm using AcceleratedX-GL to support my DiamondFireGl... Anyone got any
more thoughts.
Robert
Thus spake Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de):
> On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
>
> > I got the xtvscreen proggy off the bttv page, but when I plug everything
> > in, I'm only getting a black screen. I created the /dev's but no
> > picture.
> >
> > Any ideas? I'd really like to get this set up...
>
> Attached the trouble-shooting file from the xawtv package, it has a few
> hints...
>
> Gerd
>
>
> Here are a few hints if you have trouble to make bttv work:
>
>
> general
> =======
>
> * Check the PROBLEMS file in Ralph's bttv Documentation
>
> * There are a few known incompatibilities, see below.
>
> * The insmod options for the modules are documented in the
> MODULES file. Use the "verbose=" and "debug=" args to make
> the modules more verbose.
>
> * Just in case you don't know: With the "dmesg" command you can
> display the (last 4k of) kernel/module messages.
>
> * Try a newer version of the X-Server (if available).
>
>
> video
> =====
>
> * Make sure capture is turned on (xtvscreen starts up with capture
> off)
>
> * Black screen, no picture at all: Bad, probably the video frame buffer
> address is wrong.
> The bttv module has a vidmem= argument, so you can pass the correct one.
> xawtv should print it (if the X-Server supports DGA), you can check the
> X-Server startup messages and /proc/pci too.
>
> * Black screen after some time of normal operation: try to reload the
> bttv module.
>
> * Blue Screen: That's what you get if there is no input signal
> (Composite1 and no input source connected, sometimes happens with
> the wrong tuner type too). The Blue Screen already comes from
> the Grabber card, so the interaction between Grabber and Graphics
> board already works fine.
>
> * noisy, sort-of-white screen: There is no TV Station tuned in.
> Possible reasons:
> - There is really no station present on that channel...
> - tuner module not loaded
> - Wrong tuner type. You can set the tuner type with the "type="
> insmod argument of the tuner module, see the MODULES file for
> details.
> - Wrong channel map (the channel-to-freqency mapping is
> different in different countries)
>
> * Trouble with TrueColor mode: It's impossible to find what color depth
> the X-Server uses internally, you might have to use the -b switch to
> tell if it runs 24 or 32 bpp. Both xawtv and v4l-conf have this switch.
>
>
> sound
> =====
>
> * it might be nessesary to initialize the sound card with a
> "insmod sound" to get sound at all.
>
> * With stereo cards you need the msp3400 module.
>
> There is some trouble with the MIRO cards: They can do both
> mono (without msp3400 chip) & stereo (using msp3400), but nobody
> knows how to kick them into stereo mode.
> Result: it works even without msp3400, but loading the msp3400
> does'nt give stereo sound...
>
> * For radio support (WinTV/Radio) you have to do "insmod radio=1"
>
>
> if it still does'nt work... -- hardware problems/conflicts
> ============================================================
>
> * As far I know, the bttv driver can't do IRQ sharing, make sure it
> has its own interrupt.
>
> * There are reports that the tuner works only if the *graphic board*
> has its own IRQ. Don't ask me why...
>
> * Sometimes there are memory conflicts beetween bttv and some other
> card. With the remap insmod option of the bttv module you can move
> the memory of the bt848 chip to some other place.
>
> * If you have to boot Win95 first to make the grabber board work, you
> might want to save /proc/pci before and after running Win95 and look
> for changes to track the problem down.
>
> * /proc/pci, /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports are your friends...
>
>
> Known incompatibilities
> =======================
>
> [Alan on linux-kernel]
>
> o Some SiS boards it doesnt work on. I don't know if it works on
> the new SiS socket 7 stuff (5598 etc) but I'd like to know
>
> o S3 video cards it flickers when windows are scrolling etc. Windows
> & Linux. You cant DMA video to an S3 while it is using the onboard
> accelerator
>
> o Lot of noise with 3c59x ethernet. Caused by the latency for the
> 3c59x having to be really high to avoid a silicon bug.
>
> [Ralph, see also his PROBLEMS file]
>
> o Some S3 cards (mostly Trio 64) don't work with XFree (but with
> AccelX).
>
>
>
> More hints/suggestions/corrections/updates are welcome,
>
> Gerd
>
>
> --
> Gerd Knorr <kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de>
>
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