[ale] Interesting SuSE problem

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> I tested a system with a tv capture card using the SuSE Live Eval 8.2
> cdrom. The card is a Kworld something (cheap card) with a Conexant
> 878A chipset. It worked (to my amazement) right out of the box
> (didn't try the FM tuner).
> 
> I then installed SuSE 8.2 on the same computer and now I can't get
> the card to work.  It finds a tv/capture card with correct chipset,
> but even as root it will not play.  Also, changing to different types
> of cards (4 different worked with the eval) gives the same result.

What does lsmod show? Specifically look for:

bttv
tuner
i2c-algo-core
i2c-core

Try 'modprobe bttv' as root, then start your tv/capture software.

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Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

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