[Kwintv] kdetv problem: no channels

[George Fragos]

I've been struggling with a WinTV card and have had limited success
with Linspire, SuSE 9.1 Personal and now SuSE 9.2 Pro.  My issue has
related screenwidgets as well.  I tried a few different tuner
settings, for the most part no channels were recognized until I tried
"6".  The scan now claims to find about 20 channels with US-cable
NTSC.  Cable channel 19, FNC, works fine and the other channels all
show the same unknown station.  Is there any hope for me.  I'll do
without TV before I go back to Windows.  By the way, what is a
screenwidget?  I can guess but, I can't find it anywhere except in
error messages of a number of users.


On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:37:11 +0100, eGore <egore at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I guess that's the same problem I had. The problem is, that the included
> v4l in gentoo's kernel have an issue with v4l1. The issue has been fixed
> by the v4l author and I think that the upcoming kernel 2.6.10 has
> included these fixes (since the ChangeLog of the kernel maintainers
> stated many changes to v4l after 2.6.9 has been released). So I think
> you got 3 options:
> a) Use the CVS of v4l
> b) Try sys-kernel/development-sources-2.6.10_rc2
> c) Try to get the v4l2 plugin to work (I'm not sure if it was a v4l1
> issue only, so maybe that won't help)
> 
> I cannot prove this currently, since my cx8800 is approximatly 100 km up
> north from the place where I'm typing this :D
> 
> Regards,
>   Christoph
> 
> Am Samstag, den 20.11.2004, 18:15 +0100 schrieb Eggert Ehmke:
> 
> 
> > Hello list,
> > my system is a Gentoo Linux 2004.3 (kernel 2.6.9-gentoo--r4) with a Hauppauge
> > WinTV PCI-FM card. After installing the cx8800 module, I got tvtime to run.
> > However, kdetv does not work. It starts ok, but no channels. When I select
> > setup/video/configure plugin, the application crashes. These are the messages
> > in the shell when launching kdetv:
> >
> > kdetv
> > ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL
> > kdetv: WARNING: Sourcemanager: No screenwidget set! Cannot scan video plugins!
> > kdetv: WARNING: OSDManager: No screenwidget set! Cannot scan OSD plugins!
> > kdetv: WARNING: MiscManager: No screenwidget set! Cannot scan Misc plugins!
> > Try to open v4l2 vbi device, libzvbi interface rev.
> > $Id: io-v4l2.c,v 1.12 2002/11/30 02:37:18 mschimek Exp $Opened /dev/v4l/vbi0
> > Try to open v4l2 (2002-10) vbi device, libzvbi interface rev.
> > $Id: io-v4l2k.c,v 1.4 2003/02/16 18:58:07 mschimek Exp $Opened /dev/v4l/vbi0
> > /dev/v4l/vbi0 (Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models) is a v4l2 vbi device,
> > driver cx8800, version 0x00000004
> > Current scanning system is 625
> > Querying current vbi parameters... success
> > VBI capture parameters granted: format 59455247, 35468950 Hz, 2048 bpl, offs
> > 244, F1 6+17, F2 318+17, flags 00000000
> > Nyquist check passed
> > Request decoding of services 0x60000c7f
> > Will decode services 0x0000041f
> > Using streaming interface
> > Fifo initialized
> > Requesting streaming i/o buffers
> > Try to open v4l vbi device, libzvbi interface rev.
> > $Id: io-v4l.c,v 1.9 2002/11/30 02:37:18 mschimek Exp $Opened /dev/v4l/vbi0
> > Driver name 'Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models'
> > Attempt to guess the videostandard
> > Driver supports VIDIOCGTUNER: 0
> > Videostandard is PAL/SECAM
> > /dev/v4l/vbi0 (Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models) is a v4l vbi device
> > Hinted video standard 0, guessed 625
> > Driver supports VIDIOCGVBIFMT, guessed videostandard 625
> > Accept current vbi parameters
> > Guessed videostandard 625
> > Nyquist check passed
> > Will decode services 0x0000041f
> > Warning: no read select, reading will block
> > Capture buffer allocated
> > Successful opened /dev/v4l/vbi0 (Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models)
> > kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available
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