WinTV and bktr

[Drew Tomlinson]

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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