From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 1 01:06:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 753EA16A4CE; Sun, 1 May 2005 01:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.151.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D67643D31; Sun, 1 May 2005 01:06:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from [66.92.151.195] (july.chuckr.org [66.92.151.195]) by april.chuckr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810FF12123; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:00:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42742B7D.3090505@chuckr.org> Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 01:06:05 +0000 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050316) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <20050430051255.GE21950@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050430051255.GE21950@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: TV tuner woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 01:06:09 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've been having troubles with three different TV tuner cards, none of > which I can get to work. Here's an overview: Greg, I'm still putting together info, but the following URL is for the V4L2 usb (Linux) drivers for the Win-TV PVR card. I hope that there's some interesting in this. http://justiceforall.free.fr/pvrusb2.html If anyone finds more, maybe they could post it also? > > 1. A Hauppauge PVR-150 card. This seems to be a cheaper version of > the PVR-250, which is supported outside the tree. I sent a > message to this mailing list about this card a few hours ago, so I > won't repeat. If you haven't already read it (Subject: Re: > FreeBSD 4.9 / 5.3 Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 ...), take a look. > > 2. An el cheapo BT 878 card. The card itself is recognized and > supported by the bktr driver: > > bktr0: mem 0xdddfe000-0xdddfefff irq 17 at device 6.0 on pci0 > bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > bktr0: Card has no configuration EEPROM. Cannot determine card make. > bktr0: Tuner address 194 > bktr0: Pinnacle/Miro TV, Temic PAL I tuner. > > pciconf says: > > bktr0@pci0:6:0: class=0x040000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation' > device = 'Bt878 MediaStream Controller' > class = multimedia > subclass = video > none0@pci0:6:1: class=0x048000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x0878109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation' > device = 'Bt878/Fusion878A Video Capture (Audio Section)' > class = multimedia > > This card sort of works with the exception of the tuner. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/videorecorder/log.html#12 for the gory > details; basically, it appears that the tuner address is > non-standard. http://www.lemoncube.com/354.html describes how > somebody got it to run under Linux: > > However, after some trial and error I put this in my > modules.conf > > options bttv card=0x25 tuner=38 > options tuner force=0,0x61 ignore=0,0x60 debug=1 > > Did a modprobe bttv and tried recording something and now it > works perfectly. > > My problem is that I don't understand how this relates to the > FreeBSD driver. Can anybody clarify? > > 3. An MSI "Tv@nywhere Master" board, the latter with a chip that > could be a Connexant CX 23881. I can't find any driver at all for > this, and it's currently on loan to somebody. If anybody has some > pointers, I can get it back and try things. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers.