Re: [GATOS]Upgrade Problems

[Spencer A. <sd...@ob...>]

Fo...@fo... wrote:

>Spence,
>	I tried what you recommended and unfortunately with the MDK 9.1, the
>ati.2 binary rpms and avview 0.10.8 (no tcl/tk upgrade, no km, no
>drm-kernel), I get the same problems as using all of the new RPMs, the green
>stripes and sound problems.
>
>	If you have any other ideas or things you would like me to test, I
>still have everything set up.
>
>Kevin Foss
>Ottawa, Canada
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Spencer Anderson [mailto:sd...@ob...]
>Sent: Tuesday, 29, July, 2003 12:52 PM
>To: Fo...@fo...
>Cc: gat...@li...
>Subject: Re: [GATOS]Upgrade Problems
>
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>Fo...@fo... wrote:
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>>Sorry that I did not respond earlier to this thread, but I have been
>>rebuilding my system with MDK 9.0 after attempting to upgrade to MDK 9.1
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>>So from the previous sentence, I am sure that you can tell that I was not
>>satisfied with the upgrade results.  I had the issues with the green
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>stripes
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>>along the sides of the avview screen and the sound that would not stop
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>after
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>>avview closed.  I felt it was not useful to reboot the system after each
>>avview use, and the capture of the green stripes made my captured file
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>sizes
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>>huge (> 1.6GB for 1 hr compared to 600MB under good conditions). It is
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>using
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>>NTSC and find that Xawtv is not working right either.  
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>>I am using an AIW Rage 128 Pro 32MB, 4x AGP on an ECS K7S5A Pro MB with
>>256MB of DDR RAM.  
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>>I have been using avview 0.12.0 on MDK 9.0 (with XF86 4.2.1) for a few
>>months now successfully with no issues.  I started to move to MDK 9.1 as an
>>upgrade.  The ATI.2 binary RPMs worked although there was that green
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>stripe.
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>>But at least X started.  Once I recompiled Km, Alsa, ffmpeg, Tcl/Tk, and
>>Avview, I still had the same green stripes and the problems with the sound
>>not stopping after avview was closed.
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>>So I buckled under and started a fresh install to rule out any
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>configuration
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>>crossovers from MDK 9.0.  Well no joy here either, same green stripe and
>>sound problems.  I assume that this is a problem with the binaries not
>>km/avview as I can still capture.  A few months ago when I first tried to
>>use MDK 9.1, I used the 4.3.0 binaries, -5 and -9 and couldn't get X to
>>start again.
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>>Got any ideas for what I could try.  I'm willing to swap harddrives using a
>>fresh install to test, but I'm not going to use my current setup again
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>until
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>>this is a done deal...
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>>Thanks for everyone's effort.
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>>
>>Kevin Foss
>>Ottawa, Canada
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>Kevin, if you have the time and disk space, could you install ML9.1, 
>avview-10.8 and ati.2 from 9.1 contribs. Don't install any other km, 
>drm-kernel, tcl or tk. I would REALLY like to get to the bottom of this 
>and this would give a good starting base.
>
>Spence
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Spence