Re: saa7134 - latest experiences

[Robert Reid <robreid@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

I concur, well nearly...
A while ago, I hadn't been having any luck at all with my FV3K  (PAL, no 
FM radio).

Recently, I went and upgraded the saa7134 driver I was running (to 
0.1.10), compiled a real 2.4.19 kernel, not -pre, setup the lastest 
NVidia binary drivers, retuned all the channels in xawtv.... (the kernel 
is dated Sep 4, so its about the last 2 weeks also)

It pretty much started working, I had a few false starts where it only 
worked running -noxv with Capture set to grabdisplay (the picture was 
blacked out otherwise).  Then it started worked with grabdisplay and 
overlay, and I thought all my problems were solved...

Then, after what would be about 4 or 5 days according to 'last', I 
rebooted after the video dropped out.  I have done a couple of reboots 
since, sometimes the video comes back for a while, but often drops out 
within 3 hours or so.  Now I only get sound, no picture.  I have never 
had sound drop out like a lot of people reported a couple of weeks ago, 
except for the odd occasion where it dropped out but changing channel 
back and forth picked it up again.

On another note, an error I get that I have no idea why is:
$ xawtv -noxv
This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19)
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30840/30840/30146/29929/0,depth=24,fmt=4): 
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30801/30840/29929/29929/0,depth=24,fmt=4): 
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30840/30801/29929/29929/0,depth=24,fmt=4): 
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSPICT(params=30840/30840/29929/30146/0,depth=24,fmt=4): 
Operation not permitted
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Input/output error
no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)

but only when running -noxv.  Does anyone know what this means?

Regards,
Robert

Jozsa Kristof wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've silently gathered the experiences of the last 2 weeks about my
>flyvideo3k. I did not touched the config, nor the card, just booted up every
>evening, and tried whether it works or not. When it worked, I saw TV for a
>few hours.
>
>However stupid it sounds, I can clearly state the following: my flyvideo3k
>card starts working in about every 4 days. (I mean starts working == has
>both sound and picture). I watch TV for 2-3 days, and *meanwhile* I'm
>watching xawtv, the picture goes out. I might switch channels, quit and
>start xawtv again, it has no picture, only sound. And *after that* if I
>reboot, I fall back to the core problem: I have only pic, and no sound, and
>this stays so for the next ~4 days, and the whole process rollbacks to the
>start :)
>
>hope that's some pieces of useful info tracking down the problem,
>
>Christopher
>  
>




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