Configuring TV Card

I configured my TV card to work with KDETV -- I also configured the card
for tvtime as well -- in Suse 10.0, but I'm having an issue with the
display of the image. My picture is displaying in black & white and I
can't figure out why it wont display in color. I have an ATI TV Wonder
PCI tv tuner card.

crankyfranky@gmail.com wrote:

> I configured my TV card to work with KDETV -- I also configured the card
> for tvtime as well -- in Suse 10.0, but I'm having an issue with the
> display of the image. My picture is displaying in black & white and I
> can't figure out why it wont display in color. I have an ATI TV Wonder
> PCI tv tuner card.

I have the same card, OYA antenna. In several other distros, I had no
success with kdetv, partial with xawtv (not great video image), better
success with TVtime (lots of tweaking for hue, contrast, etc.). I've
gotten all three to work, but again with less success with kdetv & xawtv.
TVtime still works best, still needs more tweaking to get it that way,
syill needs different settings for each channel. And some of the darker
shows (Alias, some CSI segments, 24, much of the various flavors of Law &
Order) need brightening beyond what the rest of the syuff on the same
channels does.

Bill K

crankyfranky@gmail.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> I configured my TV card to work with KDETV -- I also configured the
> card for tvtime as well -- in Suse 10.0, but I'm having an issue with
> the
> display of the image. My picture is displaying in black & white and I
> can't figure out why it wont display in color. I have an ATI TV
> Wonder PCI tv tuner card.

Are you sure you have the right things setup for your region such as
ntsc, pal, pali, paln etc...

Another thing is if the card is getting recognised correctly and the
right tuner is being used.

Your card /should/ be either a card=63 or card=64, this can be adjusted
by adding the parameter to the card config in:

/etc/modprobe.d/tv

add a new line with the following contents if needed:

options bttv card=63 ( or 64 depending on which you have )

Other options can be added as well, there is a load of documentation in
the kernel source under the video4linux dir for more info.

HTH
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Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

With help from another board I was able to get it to work. I had to se the
card to 63 and change the tuner to 2. I then had to manually go through
each channel and adjust the frequency until it was clear.

crankyfranky@gmail.com adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> With help from another board I was able to get it to work. I had to
> se the
> card to 63 and change the tuner to 2. I then had to manually go
> through each channel and adjust the frequency until it was clear.

Thanks for the feedback Frank.

I have a similar sort of thing with my card based on a saa7134 chipset,
the card and tuner are never picked up correctly so I have to add them
by hand.

Glad you got it working.

Emjoy
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Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp