Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:48:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Sperber <sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: <multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: TV, fxtv, too slow Message-ID: <20010723183909.Q353-100000@www.omega-project.net> In-Reply-To: <20010721202122.A3282@nc.rr.com>
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Randall Hopper wrote:
> Sperber:
> |> |I just upgraded my computer and since this upgrade my tv doesn't work
> |> |properly any more. - It's too slow.
> |> |I had a K6-2 500 and a PCI (Riva TNT2) graphic card, now i have a
> |> |Thunderbird 1.2 Ghz and a Geforce 2 MX (AGP).
> |> |When I maximise the fxtv window it is suddenly interlaced and shadows of
> |> |former pictures stay... - I tried several things, but nothing
> |> |worked... It's also intressting that my dga test is slower than the
> |> |one of my cousin who has a Celeron 300, Matrox Milenium G450.
> |>
> |> Hmm. Let's see your "fxtv -debug startup" output.
> |
> |Here it comes... ;)
> ...
> | 7 TrueColor 24 4,4 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff -- Yes
> | 4 TrueColor 24 4,4 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff -- No
> | 0 DirectColor 24 4,4 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff -- No
> | 0 DirectColor 24 4,4 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff -- No
> |Chosen Visual is 24-bpp TrueColor
> |
> |XF86VidModeQueryVersion() succeeded - version = 2.01
>
> Looks good to me. Appears you're using DGA, but why it'd be slow
> (particularly with an AGP card) is a mystery. It's sounds rather like the
> DMA transfers for the frames are being aborted before they complete. I
> used to see this more often on my old Pentium system when I had a bunch of
> other stuff going on on the PCI bus.
Well i have 5 PCI cards in use...
But it's intressting - i tried it in windows and it worked - the picture
was not nice, but i used old drivers...
BUT I don't want to use Windows for TV...
> Do some searches on groups.google.com for your motherboard. Could be
> anything -- BIOS AGP/PCI settings or BIOS version-specific problems maybe?
> Also, some versions of FreeBSD don't support the new Athlon MB chipsets
> well. I read about issues with my new MB chipset which are resolved in
> -STABLE before I upgraded, so I SUPed 4.3-STABLE and no problems so far --
> works great. FWIW, I've got an ASUS A7M266 here, and I'm also DMAing video
> across the PCI-AGP bridge. The northbridge is AMD 761; southbridge: VIA 686B.
> For the 686B, there were also IDE data corruption issues resolved by the
> latest BIOS IIRC.
Last night i upgraded my freeBSD to the newest stable version...
And I also had a look on the newest BIOS version - I have the newest...
:/
Any further ideas?
Sperber
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