From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun May 18 09:56:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03567 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 18 May 1997 09:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03562 for ; Sun, 18 May 1997 09:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23233; Sun, 18 May 1997 10:56:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705181656.KAA23233@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Bernie Doehner cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WinCast TV - some hope? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 18 May 1997 12:35:42 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 10:56:30 -0600 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, > This morning as a last resort before giving up on the current hardware > configuration, I move the WIncast TV card into another slot and hooked up > a VCR with to the RCA jack. I actualy got video to show under fxtv, and it > looked good (still getting tsleep errors, but no crashes) > > However, when I switched to regular coax, nothing came out. When going > through the RCA jack does it bypass the tuner? yes, it bypasses the tuner. one thing you could try is getting a "signature" for this card with this program: http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/files/sign.c return its output and I'll look for any clues. what this program does is scan the board for all the parts that it uses to determine the board type. it might be that they changed the address of something on us. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD