[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#471902: Bug#471902: after hal is started, my tv/radio card (Hauppauge WinTV) starts to play radio

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:31:26AM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.11~rc2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I think everything is said already. No idea why / how hald triggers the tv
> card, but after "hald" is started during booting the radio starts playing.
> Disableing this service and it does not happen, starting hal manually via its
> initscript and the radio starts playing immediately.

What driver does this card use ? The new version of hal queries the
capabilities of video4linux devices, but that shouldn't trigger the device to
start playing.

Does running v4l2-ctl -D -d <your video device> trigger the same behaviour?
(v4l2-ctl can be found in the ivtv-utils pacakge)

  Sjoerd
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