From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 30 16: 6:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from oldserver.demon.nl (oldserver.demon.nl [212.238.105.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D91A14FFB for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:06:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.NL) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by oldserver.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA02679; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:06:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@oldserver.demon.nl) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:06:36 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders To: Sean-Paul Rees Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brooktree 878 Framegrabber (TV) + Fxtv In-Reply-To: <3894B3DA.F78A2F2@dreamfire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > I can't believe it... FreeBSD controls my WinTV (BT878) better than > Windows does, much better than Linux. (remote control and the whole bit) > > Now that I have everything installed to make a workstation on the > 4.0-CURRENT machine sitting next to me... I wished I installed it > earlier :-) > I got the cheapest card available: Pinnacle TV with mono sound support (through sound card). I had it in two Windows machines. In both it would hang the machine after some time (between 1 and 3 hours), usually turning the screen into modern art (vertical or horizontal lines). Hard reset necessary. There were no errors, conflicts or anything to be seen or found in the control panel. In my FreeBSD box it is great. No problems at all, except sometimes with grabbing a picture, which is probably related to a shortage of free RAM, as I run (at nice 20) mersenne primers. Stopping one of those (it is an smp box) solves it. > I love FreeBSD. I adore it. > > Cheers, > Sean > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- Marc Schneiders marc@gluur.net marc@venster.nl marc@oldserver.demon.nl propro 1:00am up 16 days,49 mins, load average: 2.23 2.14 2.23 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message