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From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
To: Joachim.Wunder@lrz-muenchen.de
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Subject: Re: [Fxtv 0.45]: can only select one channel (from vcr)
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Joachim Wunder:
 |>Are you running XFree 3.3.1?
 |
 |Ummm....I am not quite sure... should a xdpyinfo show?

"startx -- -probeonly" will, but xdpyinfo does too (see below)

 |>    1) fxtv -colorbars                  -- what do you see?
 |
 |I see vertical colorbars, so I think this is a good sign.

Yep.  I'm not sure, I believe that's the tuner talking :-) So the
tuner-to-screen path seems OK.  This seems to point to tuner configuration
or signal-related problems.

 |>    2) Repeat in other color depths supported by your X server.
 |
 |I am currently using 16 bpp and I see the colorbars. So I think this is ok so
 |far!?

Yep, no reason to try others.

xdpyinfo output:
 ...
 |vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
 |vendor release number:    3200

Looks like XFree86 3.2.  You're getting a picture on the screen with
-colorbars, so probably no reason to upgrade.  We're in the bt848 driver's
tuner code, the tuner, or the video cable at this point.

 |Thank you very much for your help again!

No problem.  Knowing what we know now (tuner-to-display is OK), I'm afraid
I need to hand-off to someone that has more driver and/or PAL experience to
help get the bottom of this tuner config/reception problem.  PAL and the
driver aren't my strong points.  

Any takers?

Randall