From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 03:10:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA02021 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:10:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02016 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA18067; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:14:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:14:00 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: "Bond, Jeffery" cc: "'eddie@silk.net'" , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Which TV tuner card? In-Reply-To: <084DD226F592D211988800A024AC583B269329@exchange.nectech.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA02017 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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