[Hoary] Watching TV ?

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Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>Good old XawTV works fine in Warty (with a cheap "BT878" Pinnacle PC TV
>card), but in Hoary, not quite ! :-/
>So I thought it was time to search for a more modern alternative, and
>what a great opportunity, to replace it with a lovely Gnome program.
>So I searched gnomefiles.org for 'tv'. Found about half a dozen TV
>viewers, only one looked nice : "Zapping TV".
>I found it in Synaptic, great ! But it refuses to start, and pops up a
>little error message : "Cannot find X screens"... Any idea ?
>I noticed that no later than yesterday, a new version of Zapping, was
>released, so tried to compile it, to see if it made any difference, but
>the ./configure fails, saying : 
>
>***
>checking for python... true
>configure: error: Python.h not found in its standard location
>***
>
>Is anyone successful with Zapping TV on Hoary ? Or with XawTV ?
>
>I don't spend much time on TV, but when I do, I would rather like it to
>work ! :-/
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>Thanks for any help....
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>Vince
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Hi,

i have a old PCTV too, it works with tvtime if i apply this:

sudo rmmod  bttv
sudo rmmod  tuner
sudo modprobe bttv card=1 tuner=0

good luck

holger