Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 09:14:42 -0600 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> To: Johan Larsson <gozer@ludd.luth.se> Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@pagesz.net>, Duane Gustavus <duane@denton.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv Message-ID: <36A1FE62.CC329B90@webwizard.org.mx> References: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9901171202180.26601-100000@speedy.ludd.luth.se>
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Johan Larsson wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Randall Hopper wrote: > > > Duane Gustavus: > > |Is it possible we're not using the same driver code? Before hearing from > > |you I was stumbling around in the bt848 driver and noticed it has changed > > |since the release last October. I guess I need to go back and look for any > > |mention of bt878 support. > > | > > |It seems so close to working that I keep thinking it's just something I > > |haven't thought of. > > > > Sure. Deserves investigation at least. > > > > If we're both running a 3.0R driver, this should be the same: > > > > > cd /usr/src > > > cksum sys/i386/include/ioctl_bt848.h sys/pci/brooktree848.c sys/pci/brktree_reg.h > > 4103870460 8155 sys/i386/include/ioctl_bt848.h > > 2109781360 146879 sys/pci/brooktree848.c > > 3572949425 19015 sys/pci/brktree_reg.h > > > > BTW, looking back at the pile of -multimedia list mail I haven't read yet, > > I see some PAL folks that have gotten bt878 cards working, but having > > trouble with the audio. So sounds like the bt878 isn't the issue as far as > > Yep, i purchased a Wincast/TV model 447 with the ccd-camera. I got > everything to work, except audio, and getting color from my camera. (I > live in Sweden so it's pal :) I had the color problem on mine and Roger Hardimanl gave me this solution. Roger Hardiman wrote: > Edwin, > > > The answer to both is SVIDEO. The video camara quality is excellent > > but B&W. > > Ok, the problem is probably this > The camera uses the s-video connector to get its power, but > is really just a composite camera. > So, we need to hack the bt848 driver. > > Ok, here is the hack. I'll not send a patch as I do not have the > latest version of the driver on my system but here goes. > > 1) Find this bit of the driver..... > /* this is the S-VHS input */ > case METEOR_INPUT_DEV2: > case METEOR_INPUT_DEV_SVIDEO: > bktr->flags = (bktr->flags & ~METEOR_DEV_MASK) > | METEOR_DEV2; > bt848->iform &= ~BT848_IFORM_MUXSEL; > bt848->iform |= BT848_IFORM_M_MUX2; > bt848->e_control |= BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP; > bt848->o_control |= BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP; > set_audio( bktr, AUDIO_EXTERN ); > break; > > Then change this bit of it... > bt848->e_control |= BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP; > bt848->o_control |= BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP; > to.... > bt848->e_control &= ~BT848_E_CONTROL_COMP; > bt848->o_control &= ~BT848_O_CONTROL_COMP; > > Then select the S-Video input. > If Colour works, we'll do a better fix to the driver and FXTV. > > Bye > Roger Solved my problem about two months ago. ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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