[Kwintv] "Select device", "Select source"

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Wed Aug 13 12:41:14 CEST 2003


Just delete the qtvision config files in .kde/share/config, setup the Xv 
bridge in XF86Config and then start qtvision again.

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 09:21, Vadim Tarassov wrote:
> Hallo George,
>
> I found what was the problem - I missunderstood your instructions
> thinking that KDEDIR is required only for building. Now I can get
> qtvision to show my tv card in the "Select source" dialog, however it
> does not help a lot.
>
> As you can imagine qtvision hangs. This problem has been reported once
> to the list, and switching from v4linux to Xv has been suggested as a
> workaround. I was trying dozen times to start qtvision somehow to see my
> tv card and to disable v4linux plugin, however without any success. When
> ever I press OK on the "Select source" dialog when my card is shown I am
> not able to use "settings->configure qtvision". When I click on
> "configure qtvision", program starts to hang.
>
> If I don't press OK in "select source" dialog, I can get to "configure
> qtvision" and disable v4linux, however there is no chance than to get
> qtvision to find my tv card again.
>
> Is there any possibility to get through all of this?
>
> Best regards, vadim tarassov.
>
> Vadim Tarassov wrote:
> > Hallo George,
> >
> > I build QtVision without prefix. The same story --- when starting it
> > pops up dialog with empty "select device", "select source".
> >
> > Is it possible to get debug info from qtvision?
> >
> > Best regards, vadim tarassov.
> >
> > George Staikos wrote:
> >> one of:
> >> a) you didn't install in the same path that you installed KDE
> >> b) your tuner is not configured correctly
> >> c) your tuner is in use
> >> d) you didn't setup Xv properly and v4l is not available
> >> e) very unlikely - a qtvision bug
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 03:40, Vadim Tarassov wrote:
> >>> Hallo everybody,
> >>>
> >>> I managed to build QtVision from cvs. Now when I start it I get a
> >>> dialog
> >>> where I am supposed to choose "device", "source", and "region". I've
> >>> got
> >>> nothing to choose there though, boxes are empty. I am not sure what
> >>> do I
> >>> have to expect there to see, however I assume there should be something
> >>> at least related to my TV card. And I have a TV card, and I know
> >>> that it
> >>> works because xawtv works. Has anyone an idea what am I doing wrong?
> >>>
> >>> Now when going to plugins part of the setting dialog I find that there
> >>> is no any single plugin available. I am missing something in my KDE
> >>> installation, right? I am running Redhat 9 with gnome desktop, and in
> >>> order to build qtvision I have installed a number of kde related
> >>> packages from redhat site using mainly wild guess method. Here they
> >>> are:
> >>>
> >>> [root at x1-6-00-0c-6e-2e-e0-67 vadim]# rpm -qa | grep kde
> >>> lockdev-devel-1.0.0-23
> >>> kdelibs-3.1-12
> >>> kdelibs-devel-3.1-12
> >>> lockdev-1.0.0-23
> >>> kdegames-3.1-4
> >>> kdebase-3.1-13
> >>>
> >>> Is there something missing?
> >>>
> >>> Thanx a lot for your help,
> >>> Best regards, Vadim Tarassov.
> >>>
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