Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:07:52 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FXTV Round Two Message-ID: <19990624180752.A1128@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <199906240723.BAA05038@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:23:09AM -0600 References: <199906240723.BAA05038@orthanc.ab.ca>
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lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca:
|Randall, I've managed to solve the problem with getting the fxtv frame
|rate problem solved. (This goes back to my mail on freebsd-multimedia a
|couple of weeks ago.) Reordering the boards on the PCI bus solved
|that.
That's good. Could be some other folks in the group could better their
frame rates with the same technique.
|Now I'm having a couple of other problems. It seems that fxtv is not
|setting the frequencies on the tuner properly. When in cable tuning mode,
|channels 60 and up seem correct, however I can't tune anything below
|channel 60.
Well, in the current division of labor, that channel number gets fed
straight to the driver, who then maps that to a frequency based on the
configured channel set, and sets the tuner with that. So it seems the
driver's mapping isn't right-on for your region, or you may have an
incorrect channel set configured (see cableFreqSet and antennaFreqSet in
the Fxtv README):
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fxtv/README
Also, make sure you have AFC on (Options->AFC) -- it'll probably help you
out.
|I seem to recall something from one of the freebsd lists that
|mentioned how to set up explicit mappings for the NTSC cable frequencies,
|but I can't find it in the list archives. Is there something I'm missing?
There are examples of this in the README. E.g.: "PBS(f169.00)"
I should convert this to a man page, but I don't know the art of cooking
nroff.
|Also, the settings in the apps-defaults/Fxtv file don't seem to be
|sticking ...
Yeah, lots of folks have trouble getting their X env vars set right. I did
until I wrote some commercial X apps a few years ago. Try this. It's not
the full-blown form, but it works well if you don't need localized apps set
up on your box:
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
XFILESEARCHPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%T/%N%C%S:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/%T/%N%S
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=$HOME/cfg/app-defaults/%N%C%S:$HOME/cfg/app-defaults/%N%S
and:
unsetenv XAPPLRESDIR
Then simply slap your personal app-default files in ~/cfg/app-defaults.
Randall
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