Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:14:00 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'eddie@silk.net'" <eddie@silk.net>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Which TV tuner card? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990209090834.18052A-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <084DD226F592D211988800A024AC583B269329@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > Eddie Lawhead wrote: > > >Does anyone have any experience with TV Tuner cards under FreeBSD? I have > >a friend that I am trying to convince to use FreeBSD rather than Linux. > >He just wants to know if the Win TV Card will work. If not what about the > >ATI All In Wonder? > I think someone pointed out the FXTV application. Well, I have a Hauppauge > WinTV card, and it's not without it's problems. I'm running 2.2.7-Release > and while the kernel finds the card just great, the TX app (FXTV) only seems > to update the TV picture when some other graphics are overlapping it. > > For example, if I move the corner of another window (eg. an xterm) so that > it overlaps a small part of the TV window, then it works fine. As soon as > nothing overlaps the TV window, the TV picture freezes. It may be because I > only have a crappy Stealth64. I remember the windows95 drivers reporting > that this card only works in 'primary' mode, and not buffered mode, or > something similar, so It may just be my card, and not entirely FXTV's fault. In general, my experiences with fxtv and WinTV are not so bad (I've an #9 Imagine 128 graphics adapter). Rarely, from time to time, a click on a fxtv menu item does not give the desired result but causes the video mode to switch to 640x480, and there's no way out. Regards // // Konrad Heuer ____ ___ _______ // Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ // Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / // Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ // Deutschland (Germany) ----- The Power to Serve ----- // http://www.freebsd.org // kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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