Kdetv crashing

[arcorreia]

Hello Sven,

1 - From the console confirm that bttv module is loaded by listing  loaded modules and finding lines containing bttv.

console> lsmod

bttv                  173424  1 bt878
video_buf              22724  1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit            9800  1 bttv
i2c_viapro              9108  0
v4l2_common             6080  1 bttv
btcx_risc               5288  1 bttv
tveeprom               15312  1 bttv
i2c_core               22848  9 i2c_acpi_ec,tuner,tda9887,tvaudio,tda9875,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_viapro,tveeprom
videodev               10144  1 bttv

2 - Even if linux installs bttv it doesn't know the type of the card.
Configure bttv module for your TV card.

In my case I have a Hercules Smartv 2 and I added (as root) the following lines (the first one is just a comment) to the file /etc/modprobe.d/options

# Hercules Smartv 2 TV Card
options bttv tuner=38 card=100 gbuffers=4

If you can't remember the parameters for your tv card google around you'll probably find it in one of the wikis or linux forums.

3 - Reboot your computer.

4 - Remove the dir with the ancient kdetv setups.

console> rm -r .kde/share/apps/kdetv

5 - Start kdetv and answer the questions of the config script. It should detect all your channels and you should be able to use kdetv.

Final note: If it still crashes there is probably a compatibality problem with kde 3.5.5, the version of kdetv in the repos was developed for kde 3.2. In here it detects all the channels but whenever I use an item in the menus it freezes the computer and I have to do a hardware reboot. Let me know what happened, perhaps we need to fill out a bug report.

Best regards,
Antonio

>i want to watch tv on my computer.
>I have an old Videocard with a BT878 chip on it.

>TV always worked for me until i got a new computer.
>(The card is the same)

>If i try to start kdetv it tells me:

>Unable to grab video.

>Video display is not possible with the current plugin configuration. Try 
>playing with the configuration options of the V4L2 plugin.


>Console output gives me:
>kdetv: WARNING: KXvDevice::rebuildImage: XvCreateImage failed.
>ASSERT: "xv_image != 0" in /build/buildd/kdetv-0.8.9/./kdetv/kvideoio/kxv.cpp 
>(683)
>X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
>  Major opcode:  141
>  Minor opcode:  17
>  Resource id:  0x0

>Under Windows the card still works.

>I use feisty Herd5 and have an ATI graphiccard with two monitors
>plugged in.
>I installed the actual binary driver from ati website.

>kdetv works neither under root nor under normal user login.

>Playing around with the v4l settings didnt help too.

>No other TV application works.


>Somebody having an idea what may be the problem?


>Greetings
>Sven Richter
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