Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:08:39 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Sperber <sperber@w3.brgkepler.asn-graz.ac.at> Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Weird Fxtv issue, flaky card? Message-ID: <3B582D57.87F11357@mitre.org> References: <20010720101219.H352-100000@www.omega-project.net>
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Well, with the flood of Fxtv issues on this list recently, I guess I might as well ask anyone if they've seen the same thing I have. When I start Fxtv, it is fine on lower channels (I use cable), but on the upper channels I get vertical "noise bars" running through the screen. They're fairly evenly spaced and take up about 1/3 of the screen. I also get quite a bit of noise in the sound. The strange this is, if I unmap the window (iconify it for instance) the noise in the audio channel goes away. Also, there is no noise on a regular TV plugged into the cable. If I run an svideo cable off of the cablebox to the tuner card I get a clear picture on all of the channels. Is this flaky hardware or something I can fix in software? I'm running XFree 4.1.0_4 on a Matrox Mystique G200 with an AverMedia TV98 Stereo. Also I should note that channels 4 and 5 were unwatchable for awhile on this card, and then suddenly magically cleared up one day. They were pretty much just filled with noise, although you could see a bit of the picture on 5 (4 was completely destroyed). The channels numbers I've been using are for US cable channel frequencies. Output from Fxtv -debug: Fxtv v1.03 DETECTED CAPTURE CARD(S) [DRIVER PROBES]: bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xda001000-0xda001fff irq 5 at device 13.0 on pci0 iicbb0: <I2C generic bit-banging driver> on bti2c0 bktr0: AVer Media TV/FM, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner. pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x109e, dev=0x0878) at 13.1 irq 5 SYSCTL MIB VALUES: kern.version: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #3: Thu Jun 14 19:18:39 EDT 2001 root@escaflowne.el.hazard:/usr/src/sys/compile/ESCAFLOWNE hw.bt848.card: -1 hw.bt848.tuner: -1 hw.bt848.reverse_mute: -1 hw.bt848.format: -1 hw.bt848.slow_msp_audio: -1 TUNER SIGNATURE (0x01 - 0xff): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 TUNER I2C DEVICES FOUND AT: 0xa0, 0xc2 CAPTURE CARD EEPROM CONTENTS: Read 256 EEPROM bytes (0x00 - 0xff) ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 48 02 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 01 14 61 SUPPORTED FREQUENCY SETS: 1 nabcst 2 cableirc 3 cablehrc 4 weurope 5 jpnbcst 6 jpncable 7 xussr 8 australia 9 france Supported RGB Capture Pixel Formats: bpp Bpp RGB Masks Swap --- --- ---------------------------- ---- 15 2 00007c00, 000003e0, 0000001f NB 16 2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f NB 24 3 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff B 24 4 00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff NBWb Supported YUV Capture Pixel Formats: YUVSize HSamp VSamp Pack CompOrder T->B L->R YTrans ------- ----- ----- ------ --------- ---- ---- ------ 8,8,8 1,2,2 1,1,1 PLANAR YUV Y Y N 8,8,8 1,2,2 1,1,1 PACKED YUYV Y Y N 8,8,8 1,2,2 1,2,2 PLANAR YUV Y Y N XSERVER: 'The XFree86 Project, Inc' v40100000, Protocol Verson 11.0 Screen Res = 1280x1024, DefDepth = 16; NumScreens = 1 Bitmap Unit/BitOrder/Pad = 32/LSBFirst/32, Image ByteOrder = LSBFirst XF86DGAQueryVersion() succeeded - vers = 2.00 BaseAddr = 0xd8000000, Pitch = 1280, BankSize/RamSize = 16777216/16777216 Rating Available Visuals: Rating Class bpp Bpp R,G,B Masks Swap DirectVid ------ ----------- --- --- ---------------------------- ---- --------- 5 TrueColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f -- Yes 4 TrueColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f -- No 0 DirectColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f -- No 0 DirectColor 16 2,2 0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f -- No Chosen Visual is 16-bpp TrueColor XF86VidModeQueryVersion() succeeded - version = 2.01 -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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