From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun May 18 12:59:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09579 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 12:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de (rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de [134.28.200.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA09569 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 12:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19970512105639.44853@ct.picker.com> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 21:50:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ralph Thomas Aussem To: Randall Hopper Subject: Re: Problems with bt848 in FreeBSD 2.2.1 Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Randal, >A few questions and things to try: > >1) Which version of the driver are you using I tried the following with the 3.0 SNAPSHOT 0205 > >2) By "the display changes too" do you mean that when you, for example, > adjust the brightness up, you see the screen get brighter? Yes > >3) When you change tuner/video, what visual cues do you have that anything > happened -- you said you see the video signal change? Yes. If I use xtvr I can HEAR the voice but only see snow on the window of fxtv > >4) As the screen gets brighter do you see solid white or do you see any > background static in there? At the end I only see a white screen... > > The fact that you see something change with the appearance controls > confirms that the driver is dumping images into the driver memory buffer. > >5) Sounds like either 1) the tuner isn't tuned right, 2) the video signal > is somehow being disabled, or 3) there's a problem in fxtv with the > color-space conversion code that crops up on your particular video card. > > If its one of the former two, whether you see static or not will help point > that out. In case its the latter, try playing with the colorbar and > pixel swapping options with direct video disabled (which you said > is what its defaulting to). E.g.: > > fxtv -disableDirectV -colorbars -nobswap2Bpp I see the colorbars ! > >6) If your card supports it, run in other color depths (8,15,16,24,32 bits > per pixel) and see if you get the same result. 8, 15, 16 and 24 Bits no change :-( > >6) Finally, please mail me the output of: > > "fxtv -debug startup", and --------------------- snip ------------------- Active visual does not support direct video ...backing off and using XImages fxtv Querying Supported Capture Pixel Formats: bpp Bpp R,G,B Masks Swap --- --- ---------------------------- ---- 15 2 00007c00, 000003e0, 0000001f NB 16 2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f NB 24 3 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff B 24 4 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff NBWb XF86DGAQueryVersion() succeeded - version = 1.00 Rating Available Visuals: Rating Class bpp Bpp R,G,B Masks Swap DirectVid ------ ----------- --- --- ---------------------------- ---- --------- 2 PseudoColor 8 1 00000000, 00000000, 00000000 -- No 0 DirectColor 8 1 00000007, 00000038, 000000c0 -- No 1 GrayScale 8 1 00000000, 00000000, 00000000 -- No 0 StaticColor 8 1 00000007, 00000038, 000000c0 -- No 0 TrueColor 8 1 00000007, 00000038, 000000c0 -- No 0 StaticGray 8 1 00000000, 00000000, 00000000 -- No Default Visual is 8-bpp PseudoColor XF86VidModeQueryVersion() succeeded - version = 0.07 6x6x6 Color Cube Allocated --------------------- snip -------------- > "xdpyinfo" --------------------- snip ----------------- name of display: :0.0 version number: 11.0 vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc vendor release number: 3200 maximum request size: 4194300 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32 image byte order: LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats: 2 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 keycode range: minimum 9, maximum 117 focus: window 0x240000d, revert to Parent number of extensions: 15 BIG-REQUESTS DOUBLE-BUFFER MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD RECORD SHAPE SYNC XC-MISC XFree86-DGA XFree86-Misc XFree86-VidModeExtension XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST default screen number: 0 number of screens: 1 screen #0: dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (347x260 millimeters) resolution: 75x75 dots per inch depths (2): 1, 8 root window id: 0x2a depth of root window: 8 planes number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap: 0x26 default number of colormap cells: 256 preallocated pixels: black 0, white 1 options: backing-store YES, save-unders YES largest cursor: 64x64 current input event mask: 0x58003d KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask SubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask number of visuals: 6 default visual id: 0x20 visual: visual id: 0x20 class: PseudoColor depth: 8 planes available colormap entries: 256 red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification: 6 bits visual: visual id: 0x21 class: DirectColor depth: 8 planes available colormap entries: 8 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification: 6 bits visual: visual id: 0x22 class: GrayScale depth: 8 planes available colormap entries: 256 red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification: 6 bits visual: visual id: 0x23 class: StaticColor depth: 8 planes available colormap entries: 256 red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification: 6 bits visual: visual id: 0x24 class: TrueColor depth: 8 planes available colormap entries: 8 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification: 6 bits visual: visual id: 0x25 class: StaticGray depth: 8 planes available colormap entries: 256 red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification: 6 bits -------------------- snap ------------------ > > and which video card you're using. bktr0 rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:10 Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Temic PAL tuner. Hope this helps...