From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun May 16 19: 8:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609D114D9A for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 19:08:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ppp-1-49.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.132.49]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA28993; Sun, 16 May 1999 22:08:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.1/8.8.8) id WAA19853; Sun, 16 May 1999 22:09:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 22:09:32 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: "Cambria, Mike" Cc: "'freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: fxtv lockup using camera Message-ID: <19990516220932.A19538@ipass.net> References: <75ADD7496F0BD211ADC000104B8846CF56301F@rerun.lucentctc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <75ADD7496F0BD211ADC000104B8846CF56301F@rerun.lucentctc.com>; from Cambria, Mike on Mon, May 10, 1999 at 11:35:54AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org |For a few months, I've been using my Hauppague Wincast/TV - fm Model 401 on |my 2.2.6-Release system to view/capture etc. cable TV. I use fxtv 0.46 from |ports but had to get the driver from |http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/pub/bt848/22x | and patch it as |described there to work with a pre 3.0 system. TV is great at 800x600 16bpp |(usually) as well as higher resolutions and higher bpp. Ok. |I just bought a color camera to play with things like Mbone, NetMeeting etc. |When I use it with fxtv, the system locks up. At 640x480 8ppp, there is no |lockup, but the picture quality is lacking. At 16bpp FreeBSD locks. Under |NT 4.0 SP4, I run 800x600 true color to be sure the hardware works. | |Besides moving to a current version of FreeBSD, is there anything I can try |to figure out what is wrong? Hmm. What motherboard? And was this the same as what you had working on a pre-3.0 system? Does it work @ 24bpp? In 16bpp, try "fxtv -disableDirectV". See if that is stable. Basically, it's forcing the same transfer mechanism as is occuring in 8bpp (TV-card-to-system-memory copy, munge, then hand to X server to display), rather than the default in 15/16/24/32bpp modes which is direct video (TV-card-straight-to-video-card-frame-buffer transfer). |My system is 2.2.6 installed from CDROM. I run XF86 3.3.2 on a Matrox |Millennium II PCI with 8MB WRAM. My monitor is a Viewsonic 17. The Millenium 8MB. You'll probably need the 8MB millenium patch to work around an X server bug if you run > 1024 and @ 32bpp. Might try cranking the resolution up and see if that works any better. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message