[Karmic] Can not start tvtime (lacking hardware YUY2 overlay support)

[Cesar Arguinzones]

Binary package hint: tvtime

Since I'm out luck here!

In 8.10 tvtime worked very well.

In 9.04 no luck beacuse DRI is disabled (Bug #367546 )

Now this.

tvtime -v

Ejecutando tvtime 1.0.2.
Leyendo la configuración de /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/cesar/.tvtime/tvtime.xml"
I/O error : Permission denied
I/O error : Permission denied
Imposible cambiar el dueño de /home/cesar/.tvtime/tvtime.xml: Permiso denegado.
cpuinfo: CPU Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz, family 6, model 15, stepping 6.
cpuinfo: CPU measured at 2130,417MHz.
tvtime: Cannot set priority to -10: Permiso denegado.
xcommon: Display :0.0, vendor The X.Org Foundation, vendor release 10604000
xfullscreen: Using XINERAMA for dual-head information.
xfullscreen: Pixels are square.
xfullscreen: Number of displays is 1.
xfullscreen: Head 0 at 0,0 with size 1280x1024.
xcommon: Have XTest, will use it to ping the screensaver.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Window manager is compiz and is EWMH compliant.
xcommon: Using EWMH state fullscreen property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state above property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state below property.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Displaying in a 768x576 window inside 768x576 space.
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 1 18:35:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
Package: tvtime 1.0.2-3ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_VE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: tvtime
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1669): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1669): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1782): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1766): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:2219): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Guillaume Giroux (gug-microflex)]

same error here on i865.

I tried with xorg-edger's ppa (2:2.9.0+git20091026.10946118-0ubuntu0tormod) and I get the same error. However, rollbacking to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.4 resolves the issue (ppa: http://ppa.launchpad.net/siretart/ppa/ubuntu).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi ceap80,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

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[Cesar Arguinzones (ceap80)]

As requested

[Cesar Arguinzones (ceap80)]

In 8.04 i have to do rmmod saa7134_alsa && rmmod saa7134 && modprobe saa7134 card=3 tuner=69 for tvtime to work, so i'm attaching Xorg.0.log after running this commands.

Also (and i hope this help it) in 8.04 if a open rythmbox and try to run tvtime, i get the very same error message i'm getting now. It's strange because a don't imagine what rhytmbox has to do with video... But i'm not running rhythmbox right now no either any other media program AFAIK

[Cesar Arguinzones (ceap80)]

@:Guillaume Giroux

Are you aware of any 'collateral damage' caused by going to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.4?

I really would like to use karmic as my main system, I's stuck with 8.10 because of this bug.

[pjahead (pjahead)]

I have the same problem with tvtime at Karmic 9.10 on Intel 852GM and AVerMedia Cardbus TV/Radio E501R. Although, the command

$ mplayer -vo gl tv:// -tv device=/dev/video0

works (for me). At least, I've got a playback screen.

[Guillaume Giroux (gug-microflex)]

@Cesar: no I haven't seen any side-effect yet.

[pjahead (pjahead)]

Oh, I use 'gl' instead 'xv' in my comment. So, I tried to use xv, and got error. There is no xv support for i852/855 due bug #395932.

I've add 'nomodeset' to kernel line in the menu.lst (I use GRUB1 yet), and X.org.los says, that

(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation

and

(II) intel(0): Set up overlay video

but

(==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled

Anyway, tvtime successfully launched when Ubuntu was booted with 'nomodeset' kernel option

[Cesar Arguinzones (ceap80)]

@pjahead:

Thanks, using 'nomedeset' works for me too. I just wonder if this can have others unintended consequences?

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

I'm having the exact error message on a Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.

My lspci -vvnn:

 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device [8086:2562] (rev 01)
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-

If you need some-things more please do let me know.

[Rahul Ghose (rahulg)]

The last output was from:
lspci -vvnn | grep VGA

[wgbuntu (mahiwai-earthlink)]

I have the 82865G chip and the "tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card" error. Grub nomodeset didn't work for me. But this rollback worked.

" rollbacking to xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.4 resolves the issue (ppa: http://ppa.launchpad.net/siretart/ppa/ubuntu)."

[wgbuntu (mahiwai-earthlink)]

System started locking up during boot after the rollback. Removed nomodeset from menu.lst and everything ok.

[Allan Smith (arsuk)]

Using nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 on a Dell C400 (82830 / i830 chipset) works fine and the xv interface is available again.
It does have the side effect that the boot splash causes a segmentation fault on the console which screws up the font and causes boot delays. Removing splash from the boot line fixes this.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

It would be useful if someone could test against a Lucid Beta 2 LiveCD. I think this should have been fixed - we're going to be blacklisting kms on the i830 chipset, and there's a backport of the Xv overlay for UMS in our -intel driver.

[wgbuntu (mahiwai-earthlink)]

I have the 82865G chip and Ubuntu 10.4 rc 2 (Lucid) worked perfectly. Thank you. Also my ATI TV Wonder Pro card was detected correctly..

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