Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:08:39 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Sperber <sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at> Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Weird Fxtv issue, flaky card? Message-ID: <3B582D57.87F11357@mitre.org> References: <20010720101219.H352-100000@www.omega-project.net>
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Well, with the flood of Fxtv issues on this list recently, I guess I
might as well ask anyone if they've seen the same thing I have.
When I start Fxtv, it is fine on lower channels (I use cable), but on
the upper channels I get vertical "noise bars" running through the
screen. They're fairly evenly spaced and take up about 1/3 of the
screen. I also get quite a bit of noise in the sound. The strange
this is, if I unmap the window (iconify it for instance) the noise
in the audio channel goes away. Also, there is no noise on a regular TV
plugged into the cable. If I run an svideo cable off of the cablebox
to the tuner card I get a clear picture on all of the channels.
Is this flaky hardware or something I can fix in software?
I'm running XFree 4.1.0_4 on a Matrox Mystique G200 with an AverMedia
TV98 Stereo.
Also I should note that channels 4 and 5 were unwatchable for awhile
on this card, and then suddenly magically cleared up one day. They
were pretty much just filled with noise, although you could see a
bit of the picture on 5 (4 was completely destroyed).
The channels numbers I've been using are for US cable channel
frequencies.
Output from Fxtv -debug:
Fxtv v1.03
DETECTED CAPTURE CARD(S) [DRIVER PROBES]:
bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xda001000-0xda001fff irq 5 at device
13.0 on pci0
iicbb0: <I2C generic bit-banging driver> on bti2c0
bktr0: AVer Media TV/FM, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner.
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x109e, dev=0x0878) at 13.1 irq 5
SYSCTL MIB VALUES:
kern.version: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #3: Thu Jun 14 19:18:39 EDT 2001
root@escaflowne.el.hazard:/usr/src/sys/compile/ESCAFLOWNE
hw.bt848.card: -1
hw.bt848.tuner: -1
hw.bt848.reverse_mute: -1
hw.bt848.format: -1
hw.bt848.slow_msp_audio: -1
TUNER SIGNATURE (0x01 - 0xff):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00
TUNER I2C DEVICES FOUND AT:
0xa0, 0xc2
CAPTURE CARD EEPROM CONTENTS:
Read 256 EEPROM bytes (0x00 - 0xff)
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff 48 02 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 01 14 61
SUPPORTED FREQUENCY SETS:
1 nabcst
2 cableirc
3 cablehrc
4 weurope
5 jpnbcst
6 jpncable
7 xussr
8 australia
9 france
Supported RGB Capture Pixel Formats:
bpp Bpp RGB 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
Supported YUV Capture Pixel Formats:
YUVSize HSamp VSamp Pack CompOrder T->B L->R YTrans
------- ----- ----- ------ --------- ---- ---- ------
8,8,8 1,2,2 1,1,1 PLANAR YUV Y Y N
8,8,8 1,2,2 1,1,1 PACKED YUYV Y Y N
8,8,8 1,2,2 1,2,2 PLANAR YUV Y Y N
XSERVER: 'The XFree86 Project, Inc' v40100000, Protocol Verson 11.0
Screen Res = 1280x1024, DefDepth = 16; NumScreens = 1
Bitmap Unit/BitOrder/Pad = 32/LSBFirst/32, Image ByteOrder =
LSBFirst
XF86DGAQueryVersion() succeeded - vers = 2.00
BaseAddr = 0xd8000000, Pitch = 1280, BankSize/RamSize =
16777216/16777216
Rating Available Visuals:
Rating Class bpp Bpp R,G,B Masks Swap
DirectVid
------ ----------- --- --- ---------------------------- ----
---------
5 TrueColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f --
Yes
4 TrueColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f --
No
0 DirectColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f --
No
0 DirectColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f --
No
Chosen Visual is 16-bpp TrueColor
XF86VidModeQueryVersion() succeeded - version = 2.01
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