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ixtler@yahoo.com (Ixtler) writes:

> Hello.
> I'm just another guy with an old problem.
> I have installed Mandrake 8.1 on my computer - Celeron 600 MHz, Abit
> SL6 i815 MB, 384 MB RAM.
> I have a Jetway bt878 TV Tuner board (same as KWorld and Wayjet boards
> - if you wonder about these, they're all some Taiwan-based companies).
> It works just well under Windows98se.
> The tuner board is linked to the sound-board (Creative SB 128 PCI) via
> a jumper-cable that goes from the sound output of the TV Tuner to the
> line-in of the sound board.
> The sound board works, as I have sound with other apps, XMMS, media
> players etc.
> The problem is I get no sound with xawtv nor other TV tuner
   ...<snip>...
I too had a problem with xawtv and Mandrake 8.1 (I got the games version,
the one that comes with the Sims).  I posted my problem on Mandrake Xpert:

TV video worked in Mandrake 8.0, Crashes 8.1
Date 10/01 04:26
Architecture 1 : X86
MandrakeLinux Version
Subcategory
Question text Hello,

I have a Zoltrix TV card. It uses the BTTV chipset. Specific insmod
options to get it to work are "tuner type=6" and "bttv card=15".

This thing actually worked when I installed Mandrake 8.0 (from
Cheapbytes), so it doesn't seem to be hardware. However, now I have a
full boxed set official Mandrake8.1 Sims version, which I installed,
and when I try to start xawtv from it, the system freezes. The display
is frozen, sound from whatever station I last had the zoltrix card set
to is playing through the sound card, but X-Windows is frozen and I
cannot even ping from another computer. I tried installing a more up
to date kernel, 2.4.13, and I compiled a later version of xawtv, 3.62,
with no success.  When I started xawtv 3.62 from a command line, I did
get the message: ioctl:vidiocmcapture (0,fmt-5,size=0x0):invalid
argument

Fooling around and experimenting, I came up with mysterious solution:


I re-installed Mandrake 8.0 just to verify that xawtv worked with
that, and it did. Then I re-installed 8.1, but I used a different
partition for /usr, so I still had access very a special mount to the
8.0 /usr/partition, and I tried the xawtv from the mandrake 8.0
install under mandrake 8.1 and it worked! Then I tried the regular 8.1
xawtv and it worked too! What I have found is that if, after booting
into mandrake 8.1, I run the old xawtv JUST ONE TIME, then I can run
the new xawtv (which is better than the old version because it gets
the aspect ration better). But if I don't run the old xawtv first, the
new xawtv crashes the system. So something is getting set up out of
order, is my guess.
 
So, maybe you could try some experimenting along those lines.

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