Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:21:34 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: JakeCatfox@aol.com Cc: roger@cs.strath.ac.uk, roger@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WinTV Problem Message-ID: <3B60195E.AFE4C850@mitre.org> References: <73.1077ed61.289171de@aol.com>
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JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote: > > Hello, > I'm having a problem with getting my WinTV USB Model 4001 device to work > on my FreeBSD machine. I followed the instructions in the 2.8 release of > README.FreeBSD in order to install it. I noticed, however, that Driver 2.8 > was already in my particular version of FreeBSD source (4.3-release), but > that the lines written in conf/files were the same (in terms of filename), > but the "optional x x" was different. I tried changing it to "optional bktr > device-driver" as the instructions said, but the config program told me > "'device-driver' flag is obsolete." > Upon compiling it with the original lines in conf/files, I was unable to > run fxtv, it always gives me an error stating that bktr0 is unconfigured. > > Do you know what I can do? It's pretty easy now. Just add the following line to your kernel: device bktr OR just run "kldload bktr" as root to load the driver as a module. then cd to /dev and run "./MAKEDEV bktr0" and fxtv should work. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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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