tlug: TV tuner vs. Emacs (bizarre)

[Marcus Metzler <mocm@example.com>]

Scott M. Stone writes:
 > 
 > OK, this is really odd.  maybe.
 > I bought a Hauppauge WinTV 401 card.  Works great (in Windows).
 > 	1.  How do I get it to work in Linux?  I'm reasonably sure it's a
 >             Bt848 based card (which is why I bought that particular one).
 > 
There is a mini-HOWTO out there, have  a look at
http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv.html and the links on that page. You
can also use http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/terra/terra.html
as a guide. Although it was written for the Terratec card, most of it
also applies for other cards. The important thing is that you know
what kind of tuner is on the card, so that you can set the module
options correctly. The latest driver should be on
http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html 

 > 2.  and this is the weird part.  Ever since I installed it, the cursor
 > does funky stuff in Emacs:
 > 
 > 1.  doesn't show up at all during normal typing
 > 2.  shows up when the input focus is in a different window
 > 3.  shows up when the cursor is inside commented text when using my C
 > bindings
 > 4.  exhibits this behavior for all users on my system (all 4 of them..)
 > all with different .emacs, some without .emacs
 > 5.  when cursor is over *existing* text, the TEXT LETTER will be changed
 > to the color that the cursor is supposed to be, but no change in the
 > background.
 > 
 > I'm not using double-byte or anything, either, this is standard GNU Emacs
 > 19 running under X.
 > 
 > I'm not sure if the TV tuner card is responsible (how could it be??) but
 > it's irritating to have to code in console mode :)
I can't see how that could be caused by the TV card. What kind of
grahpics card do you use?

Marcus

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