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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I fixed my audio nastiness. For those of you
who are having problems and have a BT878 card, make sure you select the
audio mixer module when building your kernel. I didn't, thinking that
audio merely passed through my TV-card and that it didn't do anything.
What I think happened is -- absent the mixer module -- all the volume settings
are maxed out resulting in distortion and clipping. Once I built the
module and loaded it, audio became clear.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now the questions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) I set my mixer settings using the
alsamixer (and also from the command line), but they don't seem to stay
intact. I've done an alsactl store, but upon reboot, they're gone
again. Currently, I have a bash script that I run manually that re-sets
everything the way I like it. I put this in ~/.kde/Autostart, but it
doesn't run automatically. I'm thinking about calling it from another
.script, but if anyone has an elegant solution, I'm all ears.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) My video is okay, but not great. I
have a mediocre analog cable signal to begin with, so consequent degradation
takes its toll on picture quality. The lighter colors appear washed out
and there is some artifacting with hi-speed motion. I scanned the archives
and saw that people have had good success with nvtv. I'm running an nVidia
4400 MX, so I thought I'd give it a crack. Unfortunately, it
segfaults. I'm running Gentoo and I've emerged it and built it from
sourceforge source with the same result. I've seen some posts about
tweaking video quality with xvcontrols, but can't seem to find them. Any
idea on how to access them or any other suggestions?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,<BR>David</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>