Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:33:03 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv 0.45 and/or Bt848 driver Message-ID: <199710212133.TAA10480@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199710211717.KAA14453@george.arc.nasa.gov> from "lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov" at "Oct 21, 97 10:17:47 am"
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Hi Hugh, #define quoting(lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov) // First, the vic 2.8 framegrabber no longer seems to detect the Bt848, // as it did before, so, I can't do video input to vic. Was a change // to vic required to support the modified driver? It was working Are you using the latest version from rah.star-gate.com ? There was a change in the driver some time ago that required an update of vic. // Now, fxtv-0.45 works in 8-bit color mode (I was expecting a somewhat // different user interface from fxtv-0.44, but it looks the same to me - // do I have an X resources problem?), although, fxtv seems to ignore the No, it's the same interface, with the video format menu added. // channel selection X resources that I had set before (but, you can go up // and down one-channel-at-a-time) in the channel space. Was there an // announcement of new X resources to set/handle the channels? Is there // another way to do this now - I saw no menu. In any case, I assume that // all this will sort itself out over time and has nothing to do with // the driver changes. The resource names have changed. A s/Channel/Station/g in your resource file may solve this. // I also tried running the old fxtv, which I had squirreled away, // and, it produced some error messages and wouldn't run. I have // not tried reinstalling the old driver, because, I think there // is some new ioctl or something the new fxtv needs. But, if // I'm wrong about that, I could try putting the old driver back. It really needs the latest driver upgrades to run. This is ok. // Environment: 2.2-RELENG as of Saturday, including the now-included // Bt848 driver, which appears to have been updated properly (previously, // I had the ~June driver hand-installed), fxtv-0.45, ATI Graphics // Xpression, XFree86 3.3.1, using the Mach64 X server. // // So, anyway, has anyone else tried the almost-2.2.5 release // with fxtv-0.45 using the X server in truecolor mode, and, // if so, anything odd? It may have something to do with the // relatively slow ATI card, but, it was working since early // September using 2.2.2, fxtv-0.44, and the (June?) driver. I have experience using fxtv with two ATI cards. At home I have an ATI 3D Pro Turbo, 8M VRAM. It works wonderfully in True Color mode. At work I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo, 4M VRAM, and I cannot get fxtv to work in True Color mode. Neither DirectV mode, nor XImages mode work at all. It works in 15bpp mode, though, and I have not tried anything below this. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67
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