[Kwintv] BT878 with Mandrake 9.1

[Neil Macvicar]

On Sunday 06 April 2003 3:23 pm, Stewart Johnson wrote:
> G'day --
>
> I've been scanning the mail archives, but unable to find anything useful,
> so apologies if this is a repeat.
>
> I've got a Spirit PC TV Tuner which uses the BT878 chipset. I'm running
> Mandrake 9.1, which has found the card okay and created /dev/video (which
> points to /dev/v4l/video0). It also installed xawtv for me, but i've been
> unable to get that to find any channels.
>
> I figured I'd give Qtvision a spin -- I grabbed the latest from CVS and
> compiled it successfully, but it seems unable to find my tv card:
>
>
> kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Video
> Source not found
> kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision
> Channel Format not found
> kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Audio
> Mixer not found
> kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision OSD
> not found
> kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype QtVision Misc
> not found

Hi Stewart,
		Did you compile the source with --prefix=$KDEDIR ? It looks like qtvision 
cannot find any plugins, which would indicate it got installed in the 
incorrect place. (I may be wrong, but this seems most likely from the error 
massages).

Regards,
Neil.