[ale] Interesting SuSE problem

[Dow Hurst]

Do what Geoffrey recommends and then boot from the live CD and see if 
you have differences.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

>
>
> 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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