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To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
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Subject: Re: bt848 video losing sync 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>From The Desk Of Randall Hopper :
> I don't know if anyone else sees this, but when starting and stopping the
> video on the tuner, every so often (very rarely) it'll sputter, lose
> vertical sync, slip down to 2 or 3 frames a second for a second or two, and
> then just freeze with the VBI band right in the middle of the window.
> 
> Starting/stopping the video doesn't seem to clear it up, but changing
> channels or changing the input device away from and back to tuner does.

Write an ioctl or somehow trigger in the driver printing the status
registers in bktr_intr. That will give us a clue as to what is going on.

	Have fun,
	Amancio