From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 17:52:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from umail.und.nodak.edu (und.NoDak.edu [134.129.200.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFED37B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from und.nodak.edu ([134.129.156.155]) by umail.und.nodak.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GO9EJ300.IUS; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:52:15 -0600 Message-ID: <3C180A77.7000700@und.nodak.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:55:03 -0600 From: "Luke Bredeson" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011209 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV-tuner questions . . . References: <3C17FFD0.1020108@und.nodak.edu> <200112130124.fBD1Ota46820@mikko.rsa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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This appears to be a little outdated (is work still being done on 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: 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message