Kbtv2 beta2 uploaded

Danny Pansters danny at ricin.com
Thu Feb 21 23:57:35 UTC 2008


On Thursday 21 February 2008 22:02:00 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:04:42 +0100
>
> Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com> wrote:
> > The second beta, v1.92 is available for testing.
> >
> > http://freebsd.ricin.com/kbtv2
> >
> > In v1.92 several first-run bugs are fixed, a few other known bugs are
> > gone, and saa tuning works again (freebsd6.3), including after a cold
> > boot (at the small expense of having to use a rc script to ensure
> > tuner init which apparently needs to be s l o w). Also found some
> > bugs in the saa backend tuning code.
>
> FWIW, I just tested this beta on my FreeBSD 6.3-stable / amd64:
> root at kg-quiet# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #20: Thu Jan 24
> 00:42:47 CET 2008     root at kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET
> amd64
>
> I have loaded the iic and saa module, set permissions etc. The module
> attaches:
> Feb 21 21:50:31 kg-quiet kernel: saa0: <Philips SAA7134 AV broadcast
> decoder> mem 0xfddff000-0xfddff3ff irq 21 at device 1.0 on pci2 Feb 21
> decoder> 21:50:31 kg-quiet kernel: iicbus0: <SAA713x I2C Controller> on
> decoder> saa0
> Feb 21 21:50:31 kg-quiet kernel: iic0: <I2C generic I/O> on iicbus0
>
> I also get these messages in /var/log/messages:
> Feb 21 21:51:23 kg-quiet kernel: iicbus0: START: bus error (status 0x9
> loop:12) Feb 21 21:51:23 kg-quiet kernel: iicbus0: START: bus error (status
> 0x9 loop:12) Feb 21 21:51:23 

> kg-quiet kernel: WARNING pid 24151 (python): 
> ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0044d00

Hmmm that's a new one.

> One thing puzzles me: where is the "channels" button in the gui?
> I have a "camera" button, but no channels button. The gui says that the
> card is a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo. actually, when I select Hardware, Info, it
> says this:
> saa0:
> 0x1131  Philips Semiconductors
> 0x7134  Philips SAA7134 AV broadcast decoder
> 0x11bd  Pinnacle Systems Inc
> 0x002b  PCTV Stereo
>
> HTH

This might be a different problem (regression) as I've been testing with 2 TV 
and 1 webcam backends installed. 

I will investigate these problems. I might setup a FreeBSD7/AMD64 for a second 
devel/test box. Seems like a good way to go next.

Thanks for your feedback!

Dan


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