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Date:      Sun, 8 Mar 1998 17:59:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      wlloyd@mpd.ca
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/5954: Brooktree video driver man page
Message-ID:  <199803090159.RAA20473@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         5954
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Brooktree video driver man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar  8 18:00:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     William Lloyd
>Organization:
>Release:        2.2 Stable
>Environment:
>Description:

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Add bktr.4 to Makefile and 
put into /usr/src/share/man4/man4.i386/bktr.4
---------------------
.\"
.\"	$Id$
.\"
.Dd January 28, 1998
.br
.in +0.5i
.Dt BKTR 4 i386
.Os FreeBSD 2.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm brooktree
.Nd video capture driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm device bktr0
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm bktr
driver provides support for PCI
.Em video
capture on low cost high performace boards.  The driver is heavily based to the Meteor driver.  The bktr driver should support most video cards based on the
.Em Brooktree Bt848 Video Capture Chip.
.Pp
Specifically the following cards work: 
.br
.Em Hauppage Wincast TV
.br
.Em STB TV PCI Television Tuner
.br
.Em Miro PC TV
.br
.Em Intel Smart Video Recorder III
.Pp
Currently the driver supports the following features:
.br
.in +0.5i
PCI to PCI dma transfer
.br
clipping
.br
yuv
.br
rgb16
.br
rgb24
.br
rgb32
.in -0.5i
.Pp
You may also use the following kernel parameter:
.Pp
.Em options "BROOKTREE_ALLOC_PAGES=xxx"
specifies the number of contiguous pages to allocate when successfully
probed.  The default number of pages allocated by the kernel is 216.
This means that there are (216*4096) bytes available for use.
.Pp
.Sh AUTHOR
This driver is based on the work of
.An Jim Lowe Aq james@miller.cs.uwm.edu ,
.An Mark Tinguely Aq tinguely@plains.nodak.edu ,
.An Amancio Hasty Aq hasty@star-gate.com
and a bunch of other people.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/examples/meteor -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/examples/meteor
Examples of what you can do with the driver.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr meteor 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 2.2 .
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