Archives Feb. 24, 2005
A day in Linux is an adventure... (Little fixes and bug reports...)
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So today I decided I would emerge sync and then update the whole Gentoo world while I was working to try to get a few annoyances fixed. In particular, wanted to see if the new mythtv would fix the colour problems.
First I had to fix a shallow error in the building of Qt, opengl-update ...
Hmm, what's wrong with the picture settings... (Will be a bit of a pain when recording...)
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Turns out that Myth stores picture settings for each channel, but doesn't seem to allow altering those settings, so I can't just use v4lctl to set the values unless I do it every time I change the channel. There's also something weird happening to the audio whenever I record (it suddenly starts sounding tinny and ...
Well would you look (and listen) to that! (Finally get PVR software working...)
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Okay, so what did it take to get the ATI TV Wonder Pro running on Gentoo Linux with sound and video under MythTV, you ask? You ask the weirdest questions sometimes:
- Upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10 (unstable for AMD64)
- Patch the kernel with the latest Video-for-Linux patches for that kernel version, which include fixes for ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.