Fw:Re: xawtv and ATI AIW 128 Pro

[Joshua Lokken]

Forgot to include the group, sorry.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Lokken" <joshua at joshualokken.com>
To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: xawtv and ATI AIW 128 Pro


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
> To: <freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: xawtv and ATI AIW 128 Pro
>
>
> > Joshua Lokken wrote:
> > > I've been to gatos, and read through their documentation on
> > > this subject, downloaded and installed the ati.2 modules
> > > for XFree86-4.3.0 (I'm running 4.8-stable) and read the
> > > xawtv manpage.  Maybe I'm just having trouble understanding
> > > it.  I wish to watch TV on my PC with the abovecaptioned
> > > card.  I don't need capture for the moment, just to watch...
> > >
> > > I keep getting (when I start xawtv) /dev/bktr0:  device not
> > > configured.  Well, I know that the bktr(4) driver doesn't
> > > support the ATI card, but I haven't been able to figure out
> > > which device to tell it to use, or exactly how to tell it...
> > > maybe I need to create the proper device?
> >
> > I don't have any problems watching TV with xawtv on either an AIW 128
> > Pro or an AIW Radeon 7500.  Try starting it once with the -xv switch to
> > force it to use XVideo.  If that doesn't work, you might have to
> > hand-edit the config file (my AIWs are at home so I can't tell you what
> > to change right now).
> >
> > You won't be able to capture, though.  Gatos only provides an XVideo
> > interface for FreeBSD, and you cannot capture via XVideo - only overlay.
>
> OK, thanks.  First, here's the output for xawtv -n.  I reread the manpage,
> and
> I just can't figure out where xawtv is getting the /dev/bktr0 from!
>
> [jolok] ~> xawtv -n
> This is xawtv-3.88, running on FreeBSD/i386 (4.8-STABLE)
> Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0".
> Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0".
> bktr: open /dev/bktr0: Device not configured
> no video grabber device available
>
> There are no config files on my system having to do with xawtv.
>
> [jolok] ~> find /usr -name xawtv
> /usr/ports/multimedia/xawtv
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xawtv
> /usr/X11R6/lib/xawtv
>
> and no config files in the lib dir.  So, here's the output from
>
> [jolok] ~> xawtv -xv
> This is xawtv-3.88, running on FreeBSD/i386 (4.8-STABLE)
> Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0".
> Xlib:  extension "XVideo" missing on display ":1.0".
> bktr: open /dev/bktr0: Device not configured
> no video grabber device available
>
> Any further help?  Thanks again.
>
> Joshua
>