WinTV and bktr
Drew Tomlinson
drew at mykitchentable.net
Sun May 8 12:37:04 PDT 2005
On 5/7/2005 7:58 PM William Bloom wrote:
>I've installed a WinTV PVR 150MCE card in my Dell 4550, which has been running
>FreeBSD 5.3 for many months, and would like to try it with fxtv or gnomemeeting.
>Since I'm using a custom kernel which was built without bktr support, I've added
>the following to loader.conf (from a read of the bktr man page)...
>
> bktr_load="YES"
> iccbus_load="YES"
> iccbb="YES"
>
>I already have smbus support in the kernel.
>
>After I boot, kldstat shows all these modules are indeed loaded. But dmesg
>reports that no driver attached the WinTV.
>
>The following is reported by pciconf -lv...
>
> none2 at pci2:1:0: class=0x040000 card=0x88010070 chip=0x00164444 rev=0x01
>hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Conexant Inc (Was: Globespan, ICompression Inc)'
> device = 'iTVC16/CX23416 MPEG Codec'
> class = multimedia
> subclass = video
>
>Conexant now owns brooktree technology, right? What have I got wrong? Could it
>be that this WinTV card really doesn't use a brooktree chip that is one of those
>supported by bktr? If so and therefore this WinTV card isn't supported by bktr,
>can anyone suggest which WinTV card -would- work?
>
>
>Bill
>
>
As far as I know, the new MCE cards are not supported yet. This is why
I bought a PVR-250 card. I think the older cards are supported as well.
HTH,
Drew
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