section on TV cards

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:19:42PM +0100, Jann Roeder wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to suggest an addition to the TV card setup docs.
> I think you should add to the documentation that you need to add the 
> extmod module to the module section of your xorg.conf file in order for 
> overlay to work in motv. This probably also applies to some other video 
> apps.

It seems 

Load  "extmod"

is added by default in any xorg.conf, so if you do not edit the
automatically created xorg.conf, this should not be a problem.

> It should also give the hint that it might be necessary to pass the -dev 
> option to motv in order to select the correct video card. This is 
> necessary if you are using the nvidia driver which creates additional 
> cideo in devices. Maybe it should also cover how to make these settings 
> permanent using xresources, however I don't know how to do that myself, yet.
> 

I think this should be added in xawtv manual page if it's not already
there since I don't think it's a FreeBSD issue.

Marc
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