(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kwintv Version: 0.8.8 (using KDE 2.2.0 ) Severity: normal Installed from: RedHat RPMs Compiler: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85) OS: Linux OS/Compiler notes: Upgraded to all dependencies for kde 2.2 Many thanks to you all for releasing the new KWinTV package I have missed it for several months now. Just a couple of minor problems I have found on RedHat 7.1 with KDE 2.2 the button bar flickers all the time as it did in the old releases and it pulss the cpu high all the time. In kpm its own app + the /etc/X11/X -auth tread is sharing the cpu both at about 47% as if it is try to re authenticate all the time. The othere thing is that on RedHat 7.1 and kernel 2.4 there is no device video (/dev/video) it is a separate dir (/dev/video/) but there is /dev/video0 you can get around this with the -r option on the command line. Thanks and well done to you all Colin (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
On Saturday 18 August 2001 06:49 g1gsw@g1gsw.org wrote: > Many thanks to you all for releasing the new KWinTV package I have missed > it for several months now. Just a couple of minor problems I have found on > RedHat 7.1 with KDE 2.2 the button bar flickers all the time as it did in > the old releases and it pulss the cpu high all the time. In kpm its own > app + the /etc/X11/X -auth tread is sharing the cpu both at about 47% as if > it is try to re authenticate all the time. This I don't understand. You are saying that even 0.8.5 did this for you? Are you trying to run kwintv remotely or as a different userid than you are logged in with? I am running RedHat 7.0 with most of the packages upgraded to those in 7.1 or rawhide and I don't see this. However I haven't installed KDE 2.2 yet. Perhaps something has changed in an incompatible way. You can of course disable the button bar with the menu if that makes it easier to tolerate until this problem is resolved. > The othere thing is that on RedHat 7.1 and kernel 2.4 there is no device > video (/dev/video) it is a separate dir (/dev/video/) but there is > /dev/video0 you can get around this with the -r option on the command > line. Yes this is a known problem. We'll try to have a workaround in for 0.8.9. -- George Staikos
Sorry folks, kwintv is old code and not being maintained because it's so brittle. We have started a rewrite, which is quite usable now (though incomplete). You can try your luck with it from kdenonbeta/kwintv3/, or wait for a real release sometime this year. Thanks for reporting the bugs. Hopefully you'll have much better luck with the rewrite. The developers find it to be much better already.