Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:21:36 +0200 From: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avermedia 507 TV Message-ID: <200804170021.36930.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <1254321142.20080415104145@masm.elcom.ru> References: <448212670.20080414110259@masm.elcom.ru> <1208226986.16346.269.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <1254321142.20080415104145@masm.elcom.ru>
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On Tuesday 15 April 2008 08:41:45 Victor M. Blood wrote: > On 15.04.2008, Da Rock wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 01:30 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > >> On Monday 14 April 2008 12:25:14 Victor M. Blood wrote: > >> > On 14.04.2008, Da Rock wrote: > >> > > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:02 +0400, Victor M. Blood wrote: > >> > >> Hi, All. > >> > >> > >> > >> Anyone run tuner on phillips chip 7133/7135 on freebsd, I try to > >> > >> use saa driver, devices saa0, sau0, cii0 is present in /dev/ , kbtv > >> > >> runs, but freeze on begin chanel tunin... > >> > >> > >> > >> How to test tuner and drivers works or not. > >> > > > >> > > I haven't had success yet- but I have an E506AR. Where did you get > >> > > the drivers from? I couldn't get access myself. > >> > > >> > saa_driver included in kbtv distrib, and can be found in inet, driver > >> > homepage is broken. I-m install it from port kbtv, the nessasary > >> > bsd-patche within distrib tarball > >> > >> I suspect your tuner (terratec?) is not amongst the supported ones. > > > > Both are Avermedia actually as posted, and yes they're only marginally > > supported. So far only the analogue works (possibly). > > > > That saa driver- I thought there was a problem with the site, but I had > > no idea it could be downloaded with kbtv. I thought it was only compiled > > with support for the driver, not the driver itself. > > =from kbtv README > If you set the > WITH_SAA variable to True the saa.ko kernel module will be built and > installed, as well as the tvv X-based viewer (gets embedded into kbtv) and > a saa Python module that allows for tuning and such, exactly like the bt848 > module provides for Brooktree based hardware. Note that some parts, not > needed for kbtv, are not built and not installed by kbtv. > ========= This is from an ancient version of kbtv. Tvv is not being used as viewer for a long time, instead a SDL based viewer, similar to the bktr viewer is used, and together with the tuning and some other stuff it makes up the "saa backend" Hope that explains things a bit, Dan > > ls kbtv-1.0/saa/patches > patch-Makefile > patch-support::tuner_ctrl.h > ls kbtv-1.0/saa/saa > kmod > ROMS > support > tvv > LICENSE > Makefile > Makevars > README > > saa-driver that loading is here > http://download.purpe.com/files/saa-REL_14.tgz or > http://download.purpe.com/files/ > > bsd patches from /usr/ports/multimedia/kbtv/work/*/saa/patches > > kbtv: > http://freebsd.ricin.com/kbtv/ > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbtv > http://freebsd.ricin.com/ports/distfiles/kbtv-1.2.5.tbz kbtv-1.2.5 cetrainly uses its own backend, not tvv.
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