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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:14:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Patrick Mackeown <pgm@NS4.HELP-DESK.CO.UK>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Cc:        pgm@ns4.help-desk.co.uk
Subject:   Should I throw away this TV card?
Message-ID:  <199911211714.RAA00502@NS4.HELP-DESK.CO.UK>

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Hi all,

 I bought a cheap TV card IMS TV Turbo, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner
added it to my FreeBSD version 3.3 (stable) PC and with these kernel 
options 

bktr0: <BrookTree 878> rev 0x02 int a irq 11 on pci0.9.0
bti2c0: <bt848 Hard/Soft I2C controller>
iicbb0: <I2C generic bit-banging driver> on bti2c0
iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
iicsmb0: <I2C to SMB bridge> on iicbus0
smbus0: <System Management Bus> on iicsmb0
iic0: <I2C general purpose I/O> on iicbus0
smbus1: <System Management Bus> on bti2c0
Warning - card has no configuration EEPROM. Cannot determine card make. This
may  cause poor performance
IMS TV Turbo, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner.

even the tweeking sysctl -w hw.bt848.tuner=10
manages to produce nothing but a blank screen. 
 I run fxtv with these options.
fxtv -antennaFreqSet weurope -inputFormat pal 

altering Format to Pal/M produces interference but I haven't been able to 
watch TV yet :-)

I'm thinking of throwing the card away and buying a more expensive one, do
you think it's worth trying any other last minute options?

pat


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