[linux-dvb] Re: Who plays dice with xv under 2.6?

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:12:25PM +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 
> > problems. You could also try to load v4l1-compat.o with debug=1.
> 
> I could load it with  debug=1 if needed ;-)
> 
> > Maybe you can tell me more specific what you mean by "does not work".
> 
> As I said in the first email: there is no xv extension for my two DVB-s
> cards (the xv is working with mga) xvinfo repports nothing about dvb...

I got that phenomenon with an out-of-date v4l_drv.o and dvb-kernel,
because dvb-kernel does not support the (bttv-compatible) YUV422
pixelformat anymore. Compiling v4l_drv with debug is the only way
to find out. (Of course you did restart X after loading the
drivers, yes?)

> > I corrected a bug with v4l2->v4l1 backward compatibility in
> > saa7146_video.c, so you might want to update that from CVS.
> 
> The only patches in patches-2.6 are regading a feature I don't use,
> should I take the files from
> CVS/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/common/saa7146_video.c and recompil?

Yes.


Johannes


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