Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:24:04 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bktr / fxtv problem -fixed!- Message-ID: <20020104152404.A75193@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <20020104084838.A7545@nc.rr.com>; from aa8vb@nc.rr.com on Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:48:38AM -0500 References: <20020101134607.A151@tisys.org> <20011230170550.A33828@tisys.org> <20020101104922.C19839@nc.rr.com> <20020102140143.A370@tisys.org> <20020104143305.A14137@tisys.org> <20020104084838.A7545@nc.rr.com>
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:48:38AM -0500, Randall Hopper stood up and spoke: > > What would be interesting to see is if, when you start fxtv with your > PAL/BDGHI X resource setting, if you then switched to NTSC/M manually via > the format menu, and then switched back to PAL/BDGHI, are you in the same > bad state as you were originally? And when you quit and restart fxtv, does > that "clear up" this bad state. Well, this problem is more weird that you and I could ever think. Actually, what I had just done did not fix the problem. Something else did, and I'm in the process of finding out why. Here's the story: When I thought I successfully got fxtv to work, I was also doing a "make clean" in /usr/ports just at the same time. While this make clean operating was running, fxtv worked fine, once the operation completed, I was back at the old problems! So I ran "make clean" in /usr/ports again, and the problem was fixed for another ten minutes! I also noticed that receiving teletext with alevt would also only work while my "make clean" was running. So, for you as the author of fxtv, I can confirm that what I had been seeing is really not a problem with your software (which I like very much, by the way!). Instead, I highly guess that it's a problem with my KT133 / 686B chipset. It's really strange - when the hard disk is working, I can watch TV and teletext, but when the hard disk is idle, I can't! I've reported this problem to FreeBSD's IDE / ATA / 686b bug guru Soren Schmidt. I asked him if he has a clue what the hard disk thing might have to do with my TV watching. In the mean time, my only solution is to run a script that constantly cleans /usr/ports. As long as the script runs, I can watch TV just fine. As I said, this is really weird, and I wonder if anyone's seen that before ;-) Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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