Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 01:44:52 GMT From: Joachim.Wunder@lrz-muenchen.de (Joachim Wunder) To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status on detect fix for Hauppauge FI1236 MK2 Tuner Cards Message-ID: <34ff53d1.66263@mailhost.lrz-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <19980305184212.19704@ct.picker.com> References: <19980305184212.19704@ct.picker.com>
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:42:12 -0500, you wrote: > Last weekend, I was helping set my brother up with his new Hauppauge >Win/TV (bought in TX at Fry's) in FreeBSD. He'd tried before, but just got >trash. Not being an experienced FreeBSDer (yet), he didn't know what the >problem was and just put it aside. > > I noticed that the latest bt848 driver detected the tuner as a "Temic >PAL" tuner, which surprised me and pointed to the culprit. I booted into >MSW95 to find that it's actually a: I have exactly the same problem, but I am in Germany and have a 405 Model with PAL B/G tuner... > > Phillips FI1236 MK2 I have a FI1216 MK2 and it was wrongly detected as "Temic PAL" tuner, too! :( > >NTSC & PAL combo tuner. Knowing this, I defeated the detection with: > > # #define PHILIPS_FR1236_NTSC 9 I chose a ´5´ here for Philips_PAL > options OVERRIDE_TUNER=9 ´5´ again I chose... > >in the kernel config file, and get him up-and-running. I got it up and running now, too, but I desperately cannot get any sound out of it. :( But I have a MSP 3400C stereo on the card and the freebsd-driver detects it correctly as this type, but still no sound out of it. :((( Did you have similar problems and solved them already? > > Having worked with the driver a bit, I had a handle on how to work >around this problem, but I imagine new FreeBSD users with these new cards >are more likely to just give up and think their card isn't supported. > > Just thought I'd post though and ask what the status was on fixing the >detection for these tuners. (Is the obstacle having one of these in the >hands of someone driver-savy? Lack of eeprom contents? signature? i2c?) I am not quite sure, too, but do you happen to have a card with a S-VHS input on the backpanel, too? > >Thanks, > >Randall > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message Thanks for any hint why I still can´t get no sound out of this beasty card, Joachim -- Email: Joachim.Wunder@LRZ-Muenchen.DE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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