From owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Thu Apr 28 07:12:45 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05EEB1F5AE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2481CCF for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 98C63B1F5AD; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: multimedia@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9866BB1F5AC for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from www.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784361CCD for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [208.86.226.86]) by www.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4B01B72803; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A047944A5FF; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:12:42 +1000 (AEST) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:12:42 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hans Petter Selasky Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with webcamd and RTL2832U Message-ID: <20160428071242.GB22731@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20160427080137.GQ15485@eureka.lemis.com> <57207F55.2040309@selasky.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oC1+HKm2/end4ao3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57207F55.2040309@selasky.org> Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370, +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: 0401 265 606. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:45 -0000 --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 10:59:01 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 04/27/16 10:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I'm trying to set up MythTV on a 10.2-STABLE system using an RTL2832U >> class tuner and webcamd webcamd-4.2.0.9. The tuner probes as: >> >> ... >> >> Any ideas how to corner the problem? > > 1) Check that you have only one instance of webcamd running. Yes, of course. I also checked that I did have one instance of webcamd running. In some cases it writes an error message to /dev/null and then exits with status 0, and there's no way to know it has exited. I'll send private mail with patches. > 2) Test device with w_scan utility (from ports) first. Thanks for the suggestion. That works, so I suppose it's a MythTV problem. > 3) MythTV: ensure you configure correctly DVB-T / S / S2 and so on. Done. But at least I'm closing in. You didn't address: >> I don't see any mention of rtl28xxu in current documentation, and >> no way to specify a driver in the man page. Can I assume that this >> is an undocumented change? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlcht+oACgkQIubykFB6QiN/OACfbnlRMeEajiGUr4Ke0xItyoil 0EQAoIZvtyR/Ii8mFpQVmnxtGZMrLaT1 =qyOI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3--