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Date:      Sat, 07 Mar 1998 14:16:28 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        ade@demon.net
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lack of sound with fxtv 
Message-ID:  <199803072216.OAA14348@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Mar 1998 15:28:56 CST." <E0yBR9N-0000D9-00@gorgon.lovett.com> 

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Apparently there is a new crop of Bt848 cards giving us hazzles due
to the tuner component --- The tuner component is apparently a great
target for PC manufacturers to "enhance" the bt848 cards and it
appears the PC tuner components are proliferating like jack rabbits :(

	Cheers,
	Amancio


rhh@ct.picker.com said:
> Sorry I'm a few days late chiming in on this thread -- been on
> vacation down South.

> I had similar trouble getting one of the newer Hauppauge NTSC Win/TV
> cards working on my brother's box over the weekend.  Turns out that
> its tuner (Philips FI1236 MK2) actually was supported by the bt848
> driver, but not auto-detected correctly (the driver thought it was a
> Temic PAL).  The misconfigured tuner of course resulted in a buzzing
> static mess.

> Anyway, to find out the tuner type, this worked for me.  Look up the
> property details on the card in MSW95 (something like
> Start..Settings..Control Panel..System..Device Manager..Multimedia
> Devices..<Card>..Properties..  Details....<flip tabs>).  For the
> Hauppauge cards at least, the exact tuner name is listed on the tabs
> along with H/W version, supported signal formats, etc. etc.

> Then see if the tuner is one of those in the driver list (in
> brooktree848.c):

>      /* indexes into tuners[] */
>      #define NO_TUNER                0
>      #define TEMIC_NTSC              1
>      #define TEMIC_PAL               2
>      #define TEMIC_SECAM             3
>      #define PHILIPS_NTSC            4
>      #define PHILIPS_PAL             5
>      #define PHILIPS_SECAM           6
>      #define TEMIC_PALI              7
>      #define PHILIPS_PALI            8
>      #define PHILIPS_FR1236_NTSC     9

> If you're lucky, then just add to your kernel conf.  E.g.:

>      # #define PHILIPS_FR1236_NTSC     9
>      options OVERRIDE_TUNER=9

>  |Also, how are people hooking up the audio on their cards?  On this
>  |one, at least, the supplied cables are for Macintosh only and I'm
>  |getting the sneaking suspicion that one uses the audio output jack
> to
>  |loop the signal back into one's audio card line-in jack - is that
> what
>  |fxtv expects to happen?

> That's basically it.  There's an outstanding request from a few folks
> to make the input channel configurable (Line-In, CD-In) for those that
> choose to wire-up internally, and also to make the mixer configurable
> as well (for those that have multiple soundcards).  

> These will probably be in Fxtv 0.47, but for now (0.46), the Line
> Input channel on /dev/mixer is what's tweaked.  I guess just grab xmix
> or another mixer for now and tweak directly, ignoring the volume and
> mute controls in Fxtv.

> Randall 




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