Support for Hauppauge 950Q USB tuner

2009-11-02 Thread Bob McIsaac
Can the 950Q HDTV tuner be made to work with FreeBSD? The device is identified by dmesg but of course the Hauppauge firmware must be somehow transfered to the device and then something like the Linux dvb-apps must be used for tuning and streaming. My intent is use the 950 with Zotac IONITX mo

Re: How to play MPEG2-TS

2007-02-18 Thread Bob McIsaac
On Sunday 18 February 2007 05:14, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > How do I play mpeg2 transport stream video? I have tried with vlc, > ffplay and mplayer and all dumps. The video shows fine on Windows > with mplayer, what libraries or options do I need to set to enable > mpeg2-ts on FreeBSD? > > Tha

Re: X won start anymore

2007-02-18 Thread Bob McIsaac
On Sunday 18 February 2007 06:21, Dino Vliet wrote: > This time, it is X which is causing troubles and I didn do > anything. It worked for the last months without any problems and > the last actions I did were: > > 1) portsnap fetch update and then a portupgrade -aRr > 2) changed my BIOS to enable

video acceleration desired

2007-02-17 Thread Bob McIsaac
HI: Playing an AVI video with FreeBSD6.2 on a http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=400 appears in slow motion with KDE-Kaffeine. It appears the Via CPU is doing all the work and that the graphics hardware is not fully exploited. "/var/messages" shows

Re: Ethernet not recognized

2007-01-16 Thread Bob McIsaac
Derek Ragona wrote: Check the motherboard documentation for the ethernet chipset, then look in the kernel config file for your kernel. It is likely simply not enabled in your kernel, or may require a second driver as do many of the ethernet drivers. -Derek At 07:43 AM 1/16/2007, Ju

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread Bob McIsaac
linux quest wrote: Dear Jay & The FreeBSD Communities, Thanks for putting your time and patience to help me out. Anyway, I tried it out, both changing the rc.conf and the dhclient.conf (one at a time). After that (for both of the ways), I did manage to stop the resolv.conf from being overwrit

FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-15 Thread Bob McIsaac
Hi: This is not exactly a question rather it is wrapup for a series of questions. I had a tricky, confusing problem getting FreeBSD on the net but I was able to solve it with help from this list.. Ian Smith in particular. The DHCP lease from my ISP set the nameserver address as being 192.168.1.

Re: DNS Resolver Problem

2007-01-15 Thread Bob McIsaac
linux quest wrote: I have a problem with the DNS setting in FreeBSD. Every 1 hour, I will not be able to ping google.com (because I need to type in my ISP's DNS into /etc/resolv.conf) May I know what is the best solution for this, so that I do not have to type in my ISP's DNS to the resolver all t

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Bob McIsaac
Olivier Nicole wrote: I'm using Ariff Abdullah's snd_hda driver on 6.2-RC2. The driver reports: pcm0: mem 0xc000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: pcm0: I'd tend to that that the thing that stop the speaker when you plug in the earphone is purely mechanical/analog ele

UDP ok but TCP delayed

2007-01-10 Thread Bob McIsaac
Hi: Got helpful replies before but still have a mystery 10 second delay on a TCP connection. Slashdot takes with all it's links takes about 30 seconds to load in any browser. One tiny email displays a 10sec progress bar. Yet ping, FTP, or pkg_add seems normal. I get the same result on 2 diffe

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Bob McIsaac
--> Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ? <- This is a tired old thread Please put it to bed Don't keep it fed Think positive instead Cheers, - BobMc - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: network tuning and performance troubleshooting

2007-01-04 Thread Bob McIsaac
Doug Hardie wrote: On Jan 3, 2007, at 22:57, Bob McIsaac wrote: Problem: Browser status 'looking up address' for 10 seconds for any web page clicked. Slashdot takes almost a minute to load. But FTP performance is good and running a shoutcast stream is no problem. Sending mail via

Re: network tuning and performance troubleshooting

2007-01-04 Thread Bob McIsaac
Josh Carroll wrote: Problem: Browser status 'looking up address' for 10 seconds for any web page clicked. Slashdot takes almost a minute to load. But FTP performance is good and running a shoutcast stream is no problem. Sending mail via my ISP is slow. How about a la

network tuning and performance troubleshooting

2007-01-03 Thread Bob McIsaac
Problem: Browser status 'looking up address' for 10 seconds for any web page clicked. Slashdot takes almost a minute to load. But FTP performance is good and running a shoutcast stream is no problem. Sending mail via my ISP is slow. Investigation: - "sysctl -a | grep net | less" shows a ton of

FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2006-12-30 Thread Bob McIsaac
Hi: Usability studies say that a person won't wait more than 4 seconds for a web page download. FreeBSD using Konqueor or Lynx takes more than 10 seconds. This is puzzling since ftp transfers at 400kbs, pings of freebsd.org take 80ms, and top shows CPU is 93% idle. This is for a EPIA-CN13