From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 12:43:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B015916A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:43:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from parse.com (ottawa-hs-206-191-28-202.s-ip.magma.ca [206.191.28.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B924743D75 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:43:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@parse.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by parse.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03806; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:43:55 -0500 Message-Id: <200412101243.HAA03806@parse.com> To: v.velox@vvelox.net (Vulpes Velox) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:43:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert Krten" In-Reply-To: <20041209220413.3b159ff3@fennec.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> from "Vulpes Velox" at Dec 09, 2004 10:04:13 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for FreeBSD 5.3 TV-Out capable card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:43:58 -0000 Vulpes Velox sez... > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:17:34 -0500 (EST) > "Robert Krten" wrote: > > > > > I tried this in freebsd-x11, but no luck; can anyone here help? > > Hehe, saw it there but forgot about it ^_^ No problemo; I just figured x11 was the wrong place, is all. > > I'm looking for a recommendation for a TV-out capable video card for > > the Amd64 architecture on FreeBsd 5.3 (I've googed, posted in news, > > no luck). > > > > I currently have an NVidia, but NVidia doesn't provide Amd64 > > drivers, and the ones that come with X don't correctly handle the > > TV-out aspect. > > > > I have an old ATI Rage II card with TV-out, but the drivers don't > > handle the TV-out aspect correctly either. > > Any ways, what is it doing? And what did the config look like? The symptoms are that in text mode, everything would work -- I'd get output on the SVGA connector as well as the TV-out (RCA Jack/baseband) connector. When I went into graphics mode, via "startx", the SVGA of course was still good, but the output on the TV-out went into a white box on the TV with a border of maybe 5% of the screen on each edge. Who knows what that means in terms of actual bandwidth / signal as each TV varies. When I left X, and went back to text mode, the SVGA was fine but now the TV-out showed the text, but shifted over -- it looked "tiled" if that helps... Subsequent "startx" and leaving X didn't do anything different... > > I'm willing to buy an older card, or a brand new one, hopefully > > under $200 -- my ultimate goal is to create a "video jukebox". > > > > TV-in capture and tuning would just be icing on the cake! :-) > > /me will have to loop mess with looping the tv out, on his nvidia and > ati card, around to his brooktree some time and see how the support > for it is now days Sounds like work! :-) Thanks, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!