brooktree 880: cx23880-19 TV chip

[Jim Stapleton]

Oh, no, KBTV was just my test application of choice, because it was
what worked best (least glitchy) with my old tuner. Everything I'm
seeing so far points to this being a driver issue, which doesn't
surprise me as the 88x chips aren't really supported.

On 2/25/07, Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2007 16:07, you wrote:
> > > Another thing you could try is boot linux [...]
> >
> > Not to be rude, but do you make it a habit to suggest people stick hot
> > pokers in their eyes? I would find that preferable to booting Linux...
>
> Well, you want diagnostics, no? (So do I if it's about kbtv) That's one
> recommended way to get device info.
>
> > That being said, I'll try what you suggested, thank you. Though I'm
> > curious, what is XV? I'll boot my BSD box up in a moment, but right
>
> XV= XVideo extension to Xorg drivers, means "hardware accelleration" which
> means essentially that the graphics hardware does the drawing, not the CPU.
> Also known as "direct drawing", "direct X", etc
>
> > now, I still need to get in the case and find out what is making one
> > of the fans clank around (suspecting a cable from the new PSU I got
> > with the tuner and memory got loose and is trying to get friendly with
> > one of the fans... shouldn't be challanging to fix).
>
> That's an excellent setup to muck around with capture cards... NOT :)
> Couple of years ago I had a TV card that caught fire. No kidding. The
> motherboard still worked. Keep that box clean and cooled! :)
>
> > Oh, and the quality of this tuner has improved since what you've seen
>
> I've seen nothing, only you did. Neither did I change anything for this
> hardware, as, well, I don't know what hardware it is. Glad it works better
> for you though. That's still no bug report or anything so I can do nothing to
> improve it (if possible at all). That was what I was trying to say about your
> problems with kbtv with "another card". Such comments are so unspecific that
> they don't tell me anything. Or was this not about kbtv at all?
>
> > I'm happy to say, otherwise I'd have really been unhappy. And yes, the
> > chip is the capture chip, I'll write down the tuner model number
> > again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>