[mythtv-users] Weird video problem

[Philip J. Morrison, Jr.]

It sounds like my best bet is to try my second card (ATI TV Wonder VE) and
see if it works better.  I was going to eventually have both in the system
but I can wait a while to see if 0.9.13 will fix the red screen issue.

---
Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Jarod C. Wilson [mailto:jcw at wilsonet.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:54 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Weird video problem

On Jan 26, 2004, at 22:27, Bruce Markey wrote:

> Philip J. Morrison, Jr. wrote:
>> How exactly did you do this?  I created the system using Jarod's 
>> atrpms
>> install and I have rebuilt several times to try to get 0.9.11 to 
>> install.  I
>> finally did find both a rpm and tar file for bttv-0.9.11 but it 
>> complains
>> about the kernel.  I rolled back the kernel and everything blew up big
>> time...
>> So, is there a fix for this re screen problem like 0.9.13?  Or a way 
>> to get
>> 9.11 to install on the latest kernel from apt-get?
>
> Donno if I can help you with that approach. I build kernels
> and some modules like bttv and alsa from source so it's pretty
> much untar, make, make install. The bttv source is available
> from Gerd's website at:
>
> http://bytesex.org/bttv/bttv-0.9.11.tar.gz
>
> He also has a build doc at http://bytesex.org/v4l/build.html

I'm not certain if the v4l2 patches in Axel's kernels are too new to 
work with the 0.9.11 bttv driver or not, but to build your own, you'd 
definitely need to have the kernel-source rpm corresponding to your 
running kernel installed, get the appropriate .config file into 
/usr/src/linux-2.4 and go from there. Judging from Axel's bttv.spec 
changelog, you may have to patch the bttv 0.9.11 source up for i2c >= 
2.8.0 support (which is in Axel's kernels, but compatibility is built 
in as of 0.9.12). Outside of the possible conflict w/the latest v4l2 
and the patch, compiling your own looks fairly straight-forward (but 
ymmv, I haven't tried -- I don't use my bttv card much).

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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