Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BrookTree 848 causing my screen to get messed up, how to fix? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980406132704.18904i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980406103905.dburr@POBoxes.com>
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Moving to -multimedia. On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Donald Burr wrote: > However, when that window is visible (i.e. not hidden behind any other > windows), it causes the rest of my screen to become garbled, so that > all windows (xterms, my Netscape browser, etc.) become virtually > unreadable. > > If the window is hidden behind another, nothing gets garbled. > > The same thing happens when I use the Windows software that came with the > card. Well, then, you have a problem. > Any ideas as to what's going on here, and how to fix it? I suspect an incompatibility with your video card. if it does it in windoze too then it's not our problem most likely. > Pentium 133, motherboard based on VIA VP 586 Apollo chipset, Creative Labs > Graphics Blaster MA202 with 2 MB VRAM (Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446). Other > cards in system include Adaptec AHA-2940AU PCI SCSI controller, ISA NE-2000 > ethernet clone, USR Sportster 56K modem, Sound Blaster ViBRA16C PnP sound > card. > > Another problem I'm having is that, occasionally, the card gets really > confused, and it thinks that it's a PAL card instead of an NTSC card: > > bktr0 <BrookTree 848> rev 18 int a irq 10 on pci0:10:0 > Miro TV, Philips PAL I tuner. You can force this by setting a #define in /sys/pci/brooktree848.c (I think). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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