From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 26 19:29:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7058B16A408 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:29:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEF813C441 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so1611069nfc for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:29:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bwjAMf1cxyS2r+1lt92iNtC9Xw2GEOo28xfol0684WDMBSZ8ySoQF582+uBhYR1UeUc912ZwMxqkB3byLOffqcWzSA7x6rbh7uLJwR981DCYd5+5hZqmAxIuK1r83NdzdqV4bijCaOdltx3gS2jycWD53XjP5nVmuTxh/ttsFEc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hgYs7XxR8Evd9XTkSXmqCCg6OEY5TnzrpcLxZxcRYjVq/UR9Dtjxv39WacDqa8vpNxp/u5e4gg2e4HAUkJoznlnQL3v0xUlOG60Vx2Ta+1zNJI1MONRUxs2XxtcozYN0eupw3rAKqwt37P+yODXwVWd9Yy03MArgTgb64mV7aFc= Received: by 10.82.154.2 with SMTP id b2mr1934961bue.1172518176129; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:29:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.191.16 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:29:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20702261129y7f233043n808b2e79996562b0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:29:36 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: "Danny Pansters" In-Reply-To: <200702260328.37450.danny@ricin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20702241801i37b9e845m65e5e359980b4976@mail.gmail.com> <200702251450.11382.danny@ricin.com> <80f4f2b20702250707l5a423f9u3f0d3303e40ce47f@mail.gmail.com> <200702260328.37450.danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: brooktree 880: cx23880-19 TV chip X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:29:39 -0000 Oh, no, KBTV was just my test application of choice, because it was what worked best (least glitchy) with my old tuner. Everything I'm seeing so far points to this being a driver issue, which doesn't surprise me as the 88x chips aren't really supported. On 2/25/07, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Sunday 25 February 2007 16:07, you wrote: > > > Another thing you could try is boot linux [...] > > > > Not to be rude, but do you make it a habit to suggest people stick hot > > pokers in their eyes? I would find that preferable to booting Linux... > > Well, you want diagnostics, no? (So do I if it's about kbtv) That's one > recommended way to get device info. > > > That being said, I'll try what you suggested, thank you. Though I'm > > curious, what is XV? I'll boot my BSD box up in a moment, but right > > XV= XVideo extension to Xorg drivers, means "hardware accelleration" which > means essentially that the graphics hardware does the drawing, not the CPU. > Also known as "direct drawing", "direct X", etc > > > now, I still need to get in the case and find out what is making one > > of the fans clank around (suspecting a cable from the new PSU I got > > with the tuner and memory got loose and is trying to get friendly with > > one of the fans... shouldn't be challanging to fix). > > That's an excellent setup to muck around with capture cards... NOT :) > Couple of years ago I had a TV card that caught fire. No kidding. The > motherboard still worked. Keep that box clean and cooled! :) > > > Oh, and the quality of this tuner has improved since what you've seen > > I've seen nothing, only you did. Neither did I change anything for this > hardware, as, well, I don't know what hardware it is. Glad it works better > for you though. That's still no bug report or anything so I can do nothing to > improve it (if possible at all). That was what I was trying to say about your > problems with kbtv with "another card". Such comments are so unspecific that > they don't tell me anything. Or was this not about kbtv at all? > > > I'm happy to say, otherwise I'd have really been unhappy. And yes, the > > chip is the capture chip, I'll write down the tuner model number > > again. > > Cheers, > > Dan >