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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:29:37 +0100
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jann Roeder <jann_roeder@arcor.de>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: section on TV cards
Message-ID:  <20051118222937.GA614@nosferatu.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <437E537E.6080002@arcor.de>
References:  <437E537E.6080002@arcor.de>

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:19:42PM +0100, Jann Roeder wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to suggest an addition to the TV card setup docs.
> I think you should add to the documentation that you need to add the=20
> extmod module to the module section of your xorg.conf file in order for=
=20
> overlay to work in motv. This probably also applies to some other video=
=20
> apps.

It seems=20

Load  "extmod"

is added by default in any xorg.conf, so if you do not edit the
automatically created xorg.conf, this should not be a problem.

> It should also give the hint that it might be necessary to pass the -dev=
=20
> option to motv in order to select the correct video card. This is=20
> necessary if you are using the nvidia driver which creates additional=20
> cideo in devices. Maybe it should also cover how to make these settings=
=20
> permanent using xresources, however I don't know how to do that myself, y=
et.
>=20

I think this should be added in xawtv manual page if it's not already
there since I don't think it's a FreeBSD issue.

Marc

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