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Hi,

Can anyone tell me what to download to get my pctv tv-card from Pinnacle
working?

thanks!

You'll need to make sure you have the following kernel
modules available (these are the ones my system loads):

tuner
tvaudio
bttv
i2c-algo-bit
i2c-core
videodev

plus whatever modules your sound card requires. Once you have
the kernel prepared, you'll need a user-space program to
access the card (I use "xawtv").

Hope this helps.

I installed mine to play my Dreamcast on, it works like a charm (it'll
work better once I get the SCART->S-video working, rather than the
normal 'Antenna' input I use right now :-)

Go here - it'll give you all the info:
http://bytesex.org/

and check out the links: xawtv and bttv

If you need more help after reading all the stuff there, feel free to ask.

Later

I tried those drivers from bytesex with xawtv. It does recognize the card,
but I can't get a decent picture ( heck, it only finds one channel!)
I use a cable antenna and I'm located in Holland.
I have no idea wether the problem is with the card or the tuner. Also on
that one very badly received channel I can't get it fullscreen it only blows
up to about half that size.
Any suggestions?

Anne

This may be a misconfiguration of xawtv rather than a kernel issue.
Did you build an .xawtvrc file as per the man page? I had the same
problem until I did that.

Quote:> I use a cable antenna and I'm located in Holland.
> I have no idea wether the problem is with the card or the tuner. Also on
> that one very badly received channel I can't get it fullscreen it only blows
> up to about half that size.

This probably means you don't have a matching Mode entry in your
XF86Config(-4) file. xawtv will try to send the display to whatever
the fullscreen parameter in .xawtvrc is (or, I think, it defaults to
640 x 480). If your XFree86 won't do that resolution, you'll see the
effect you're describing.

Hope this helps.

Quote:> This may be a misconfiguration of xawtv rather than a kernel issue.
> Did you build an .xawtvrc file as per the man page? I had the same
> problem until I did that.

 xawtv came preinstalled with RH 7.2
I'll uninstall it and do a new install with the newest version, maybe
that'll help

Quote:> This probably means you don't have a matching Mode entry in your
> XF86Config(-4) file. xawtv will try to send the display to whatever
> the fullscreen parameter in .xawtvrc is (or, I think, it defaults to
> 640 x 480). If your XFree86 won't do that resolution, you'll see the
> effect you're describing.

I will check that out!
 Thanks for your info

Anne

BTW: does anyone know whether it's possible to get the remote control (infra
red)  to work?

Quote:> > This may be a misconfiguration of xawtv rather than a kernel issue.
> > Did you build an .xawtvrc file as per the man page? I had the same
> > problem until I did that.

>  xawtv came preinstalled with RH 7.2
> I'll uninstall it and do a new install with the newest version, maybe
> that'll help

> > This probably means you don't have a matching Mode entry in your
> > XF86Config(-4) file. xawtv will try to send the display to whatever
> > the fullscreen parameter in .xawtvrc is (or, I think, it defaults to
> > 640 x 480). If your XFree86 won't do that resolution, you'll see the
> > effect you're describing.

> I will check that out!
>  Thanks for your info

> Anne

Quote:>If you need more help after reading all the stuff there, feel free to ask.

I just checked out your links as well as all the other documentation I
could find but haven't been able to resolve the PCTV issue I just had
last night when I installed it for the first time.

Everything works perfectly - the tuner, the video, etc., but there's
no audio at all coming out of the PCTV card itself. The sound  line
input is OK and can be controlled by the mixers, but the PCTV audio
output jack is totally dead. The machine dual boots W2K, and under
that OS there is audio from the card, so there's not a hardware issue.
Doesn't matter about the audio buttons on the toolbar, there's just no
PCTV audio output under LInux.

This is SuSE 7.3/KDE2. YAST2 properly detected the card and installed
it. The whole process was slick and easy except for the missing audio!

Thanks, Jim

What sound card are you using? my pinnacle installed with no probs, it
is linked internally from the onboard connector to one of the
connectors on my S/B 5.1 with a CD sound cable and I can control the
volume from kmix ( in xawtv ) or with the mixer in Kwintv

SuSe 7.3 KDE2.2.2
Pinnacle rave TV
s/blive 5.1

--
Cheers
Mark
Nil iligitum carborundum

On Fri, 03 May 2002 21:20:23 +0100, baskitcaise

I have an ASUS CUVX4 motherboard with onboard VIA sound. Its audio
line input works fine under Linux and can be controlled with the
mixer. That's not the problem. There's no sound at all coming out of
the PCTV board in the first place. The tuner and video work perfectly.
Sound does come out of the PCTV card when booted up into Windows 2000,
so this looks like some sort of Linux driver issue.

Let me ask a stupid question... what application are you using to
look at the output of the card? I use xawtv here, and (here's the
stupid question) if you're also doing so, are you remembering to
turn the volume up with the "+" key? xawtv sometimes launches
with the volume at minimum (at least it does for me), and I have
to turn it up before I hear any sound.

On Sat, 04 May 2002 08:10:52 -0400, Steve Martin

I used an old fashioned analog external amplifier to verify that
there's no audio coming out of the PCTV card itself. The output jack
does have audio when the card is running under W2K in the same box. So
the PCTV card hardware is OK.

As for xawtv and the machine's sound setup, that all works fine as you
describe. The problem is that under Linux the PCTV card itself
produces no audio on its output jack. Under W2K it does produce audio.
Under both OSs the video and tuner functions all work fine.

In Windows I'd start looking for conflicts, but in Linux I'm not quite
sure how I'd go about that. I'd start thinking Linux driver bug, but
it looks like this problem is not common.

When xawtv launches with volume at minimum, my card produces no output
either. Are you saying that you launched xawtv, turned the audio up
*in xawtv*, and still got no audio out of the card? If so, then
I'd have to wonder about hardware problems, except that you say it
works under Windows.

Another thought... what modules do you have loaded? Using the Pinnacle
card under Linux requires more than just the bttv and audio modules;
on my system, when xawtv launches, it also loads the following kernel
modules: tuner, tvaudio, bttv, i2c-algo-bit, i2c-core, videodev.
It's possible that you're missing a kernel module that is causing
the card not to work (or, more precisely, the card is not being
properly initialized due to a missing kernel module).

Once you get the card to produce audio out of its output jack, then
you'll have to make sure your computer's audio card is working and
that you have the external input turned up with some mixer app such
as kmix or gmix.

Hope this helps.