From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 28 18:14:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.erols.com (smtp2.erols.com [207.172.3.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C197615547 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-212.s21.as3.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.212]) by smtp2.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27141; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907290114.VAA27141@smtp2.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:13:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gordon Subject: Re: Linear buffers in VESA screen modes Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Jul-99 Andrew Gordon wrote: > On 28 Jul 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> Andrew Gordon writes: >> > The application for which I need this is to support capture from the bktr >> > driver onto the screen (ie. so that you can watch TV without X). With the >> > above hack and a small (100-line) program it works very nicely - far >> > tidier than installing X just for this purpose on some embedded systems >> > where I need this capability. >> >> Might one persuade you to release that 100-line program? :) > > Sure. It's rather crude at present, but I've put it up at: > > http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/vesatv.c My wincast tv card seemed to work w/o your patch to vesa.c. Although I don't think it set the resolution right. I need to get to somewhere that I can get to more than just static though. :) Once I do, I may try and add some support for changing channels and what not, if you don't mind. --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message