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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:55:03 -0600
From:      "Luke Bredeson" <luke.bredeson@und.nodak.edu>
To:        Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TV-tuner questions . . .
Message-ID:  <3C180A77.7000700@und.nodak.edu>
References:  <3C17FFD0.1020108@und.nodak.edu> <200112130124.fBD1Ota46820@mikko.rsa.com>

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Success!!!  That was just what I needed to do.  I checked out the man 
page, and did this:

sysctl hw.bt848.card=1
sysctl hw.bt848.tuner=4

It works really well now.  The video is just as smooth as it was in 
linux.  :)  Thanks.

luke


Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote:

>In local.freebsd.questions you write:
>
>>I have in my posession a "ATI TV Wonder VE" tv-tuner card.  I recently 
>>made the transition from Linux, where this card worked very well, but 
>>I'm having trouble with FreeBSD.  I have had difficulty finding 
>>information about getting this working correctly, but I certainly found 
>>a small bit of info.
>>
>
>>ftp://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/pub/bt848/driver/2.18/README.FreeBSD
>>
>
>>This appears to be a little outdated (is work still being done on 
>>this?), but it got me somewhere.  I followed the directions here, but I 
>>still cannot get any readable tv signal.  I do get static and lots of 
>>noise when I run a program like fxtv or xawtv, but no matter how I 
>>configure the software I can't get it to work right.  I know that 
>>SOMETHING is coming through, because when I unplug the cable there is no 
>>more static.  Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or have any ideas? 
>>Anything at all would be appreciated.  Here is what dmesg has to say 
>>about it all:
>>
>
>>bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xd9000000-0xd9000fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on 
>>pci0
>>bktr0: Warning - card vendor 0x1002 (model 0x0003) unknown.
>>bktr0: Pinnacle/Miro TV, Temic NTSC tuner.
>>
>
>Looks like the card is unknown to the driver.  If you feel like doing
>a bit of driver-coding, you might be able to extract information
>from whatever software you were using with Linux and update the bktr
>driver.
>
>A long shot could be to try to override automatic detection and
>see if the ATI card resembles any of the supported ones.  Thus:
>
> # sysctl hw.bt848.card=1     [ for 1, 2, ... 13, see bktr(4) ]
>
>And try running fxtv for each one.
>
>   $.02,
>   /Mikko
>




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