From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 30 08:03:54 2005 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 2E2D216A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:03:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail231.csoft.net (resin.csoft.net [63.111.22.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2482D43D1D for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:03:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) Received: (qmail 12007 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2005 08:09:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO puff.jakemsr.gom) (63.111.27.87) by mail231.csoft.net with SMTP; 30 Apr 2005 08:09:53 -0000 Received: (from jakemsr@jakemsr.com) by puff.jakemsr.gom (mini_sendmail/1.3.5 16nov2003); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:03:51 PDT (sender jakemsr@puff.jakemsr.gom) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:03:51 -0700 From: Jacob Meuser To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Message-ID: <20050430080351.GA10144@puff.jakemsr.gom> References: <20050430051255.GE21950@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050430051255.GE21950@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV tuner woes 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: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:03:54 -0000 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: 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. -- > 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.