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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:37:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
Cc:        jerry@freeside.fc.net, nash@mcs.net, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Subject:   Re: problem capturing video with BT848/Hauppauge Win/Tv
Message-ID:  <199804191637.SAA12353@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <19980419140638.A7467@ct.picker.com> from "Randall Hopper" at Apr 19, 98 02:06:19 pm

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>  |I have been having the same problem for a long time, both on a
>  |P5-133 and on a PPro200. I nailed down the problem to some too
>  |restrictive test for errors on the status register of the brooktree
>  |when it gets an interrupt.
> 
> Hmmm.  Pretty strange.  This appears it might be hardware or
> system-configuration related to some extent.

right. I am using a cheap S3-76X on all these systems. And i suspect
problems on the PCI bus, maybe related to the video card (although I
have the same problems with amancio's program yuvcapture12, and it does
not dump to the video memory as fxtv does.

> Sounds like it might be time to uncomment this printf in the driver:
> 
>         /*      printf( " STATUS %x %x %x \n",
>                 dstatus, bktr_status, bt848->risc_count );
>                 */              
> 
> and see what everyone's seeing.

will do in a week or two when i have more time to test this.

	cheers
	luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                  |  Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it    |  Universita' di Pisa
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