[Kwintv] BT878 with Mandrake 9.1

[Matt McPherson]

On Sunday 06 April 2003 07:23 am, 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.

Does xawtv give you any picture at all? If not your card probably isn't 
configured quite right. If it gives you a black and white image then it just 
needs tuning.
Try running 'scantv'. It'll setup a VERY basic .xawtv config.

For the record, QTvision has never worked for me either. Same prob. Won't find 
my TV-Wonder. XawTV isn't pretty but it does work.

>
> 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
>
> is this a common problem? are there any succesful BT878/Mandrake 9.1 users?
> any tips appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Stewart
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