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> During the upgrade, bttv.o module seems to get much less intelligent. > Before it would work out where my video memory is automatically. Now, I > get no TV unless I use the "vidmem=0xe00" parameter [aside: this isn't > brilliantly intuitive, my first try was videmem=0xe000000, the real > address]. It uses the newer PCI API. That broke some autodetects in the change over Gerald was working on those. You shouldnt be using them anyway - X sometimes moves the frame buffer when it starts up. If you looke at gnomovision it uses the XFree86 DGA extension to set the frame buffer parameters > and back again. I have xawtv running. When I switch back to X, xawtv has > a "frozen" picture. Worse, if I kill and restart xawtv, I have a BLANK > picture!!! TV is now totally hosed unless I rmmod and insmod bttv again. > Not impressive IMHO :) The card shutdown because its PCI writes were all being aborted in text mode. Until X and the video stuff are working together (XFree 4.0 I hope) you shouldnt mode switch back to text with tv going on the bttv. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html | ||||||||||
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