iicbb - OK with 4.8, broken with 5.3

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Tue Nov 23 14:37:14 PST 2004


rotenber at alumni.caltech.edu wrote:

>Hi
>  
>
>iicbb - OK with 4.8, broken with 5.3
>
>I am trying to migrate from 4.8-RELEASE to 5.3-RELEASE.
>Everything appears to function properly except my TV card.
>
>Since I have installed 5.3-RELEASE on a separate hard drive
>it is easy to compare it to the 4.10-RELEASE. The hardware on
>these two systems are identical except for the hard drives:
>EPIC-ME6000 (VIA) mainboard
>KWorld TV Tuner PCI Card KW-TV878RF-PRO
>
>On the 4.10 system I can use 'tuneradio' to set the FM radio
>frequency on the TV card. On the 5.3 system I get nothing but
>static and see this error:
>
> tuneradio -f 10110
>bktr0: arg=10110 temp=10110
>bktr0: tv_freq returned: -1
>
>I have compiled the bktr driver for 5.3 with BKTR_RADIO_DEBUG.
>
>I notice that iicbus1 is missing in the dmesg output of 5.3,
>but I have no idea if that is important. I also had to add
>the option BKTR_USE_FREEBSD_SMBUS or the driver for the I2C
>bus did not appear in dmesg at all.
>
>Any sugestions would be appreciated.
>
>JM Rotenberry
>

Just a suggestion or two, then.
What's known as "grasping at straws"  :-)

1.  Do you have a /dev/tuner device?
2.  Any difference if you

    # kldload pcf.ko

                        before calling tuneradio?

Just a thought (or two).

Kevin Kinsey (who knows nothing of vid capture)


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