Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:29:37 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Jann Roeder <jann_roeder@arcor.de> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: section on TV cards Message-ID: <20051118222937.GA614@nosferatu.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <437E537E.6080002@arcor.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:19:42PM +0100, Jann Roeder wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to suggest an addition to the TV card setup docs. > I think you should add to the documentation that you need to add the > extmod module to the module section of your xorg.conf file in order for > overlay to work in motv. This probably also applies to some other video > apps. It seems Load "extmod" is added by default in any xorg.conf, so if you do not edit the automatically created xorg.conf, this should not be a problem. > It should also give the hint that it might be necessary to pass the -dev > option to motv in order to select the correct video card. This is > necessary if you are using the nvidia driver which creates additional > cideo in devices. Maybe it should also cover how to make these settings > permanent using xresources, however I don't know how to do that myself, yet. > I think this should be added in xawtv manual page if it's not already there since I don't think it's a FreeBSD issue. Marc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDflXQzQ9RwE+OdOgRAhIvAJ9rDfSobYydfxe5BzZtBeOGe0b7xgCfbvTf Tq0gHB4bKXUjnJCpWGOeYd0= =vlcn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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