Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:03:51 -0700 From: Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@jakemsr.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV tuner woes Message-ID: <20050430080351.GA10144@puff.jakemsr.gom> In-Reply-To: <20050430051255.GE21950@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050430051255.GE21950@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 02:42:55PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I've been having troubles with three different TV tuner cards, none of > which I can get to work. Here's an overview: > > 1. A Hauppauge PVR-150 card. This seems to be a cheaper version of > the PVR-250, which is supported outside the tree. I sent a > message to this mailing list about this card a few hours ago, so I > won't repeat. If you haven't already read it (Subject: Re: > FreeBSD 4.9 / 5.3 Hauppauge PVR-250 / 350 ...), take a look. > > 2. An el cheapo BT 878 card. The card itself is recognized and > supported by the bktr driver: > > bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xdddfe000-0xdddfefff irq 17 at device 6.0 on pci0 > bktr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > bktr0: Card has no configuration EEPROM. Cannot determine card make. > bktr0: Tuner address 194 > bktr0: Pinnacle/Miro TV, Temic PAL I tuner. > > pciconf says: > > bktr0@pci0:6:0: class=0x040000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x036e109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation' > device = 'Bt878 MediaStream Controller' > class = multimedia > subclass = video > none0@pci0:6:1: class=0x048000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x0878109e rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Brooktree Corporation' > device = 'Bt878/Fusion878A Video Capture (Audio Section)' > class = multimedia > > This card sort of works with the exception of the tuner. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/videorecorder/log.html#12 for the gory > details; basically, it appears that the tuner address is > non-standard. http://www.lemoncube.com/354.html describes how > somebody got it to run under Linux: > > However, after some trial and error I put this in my > modules.conf > > options bttv card=0x25 tuner=38 card 0x25 == BTTV_PXELVWPLTVPRO tuner 38 == TUNER_PLILIPS_FM1216ME_MK3 > options tuner force=0,0x61 ignore=0,0x60 debug=1 no idea what that means. it looks like maybe you want to make bktr use tuner type PHILIPS_FR1216_PAL or PHILIPS_FR1236_SECAM bktr_card.c has a list of tuners and what bktr tuner type probably works best. -- <jakemsr@jakemsr.com> > Did a modprobe bttv and tried recording something and now it > works perfectly. > > My problem is that I don't understand how this relates to the > FreeBSD driver. Can anybody clarify? > > 3. An MSI "Tv@nywhere Master" board, the latter with a chip that > could be a Connexant CX 23881. I can't find any driver at all for > this, and it's currently on loan to somebody. If anybody has some > pointers, I can get it back and try things. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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