Hello,
I have been using bttv driver for a while now, it works great, thanks
for a realy good job.
bttv version: 0.7.83
card: Hauppauge WinTV Theater (lspci output attached)
kernel messages from bttv load are also attached.
Lately, I had some problem with VIDIOCSYNC ioctl and the signals from
my cabletv provider which happen to be PAL. Y also have an NTSC camera
connected to composite1 which works ok. Programs get stuck when calling
VIDIOCSYNC.
The problem happened sudently, for no good reason, maybe the cabletv
provider changed something on his equipment because I have tryed every
posible convination, from going back to 2.2 kernel to statily link
binaries on an older system and everything failed. I have tryed with
vcr, xawtv, cabletv, xawdecode, streamer, and a little program I wrote.
xawdecode was the only one that worked because it opens /dev/vbi
device, in fact executing "sleep 5000 < /dev/vbi" else where makes
everything go back to normal.
I have done some testing, opening and not opening /dev/vbi, with the
cabletv PAL signal and with NTSC and in overlay mode. Debuging output
from /proc/kmsg is included for each case.
And I have also been playing around with the driver, and come up with a
workaround which I am quite sure is not right, but fixes the problem
form me.
If requiered I could try to feed a different TV PAL signal into the
card, and if we don't find what the hell is going on, could a
workaround module parameter be added?
If you need any more information or you need me doing more tests please
let me know.
Thanks in advance.
ranty
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bttv-load.gz
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00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV/GO
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at e0002000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 11)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV/GO
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at e0003000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
lspci-vv.wintv.gz
Description: Binary data
vbi-not-opened-NTSC.gz
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vbi-not-opened-PAL-overlay.gz
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vbi-opened-NTSC.gz
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vbi-opened-PAL-overlay.gz
Description: Binary data
vbi-opened-PAL.gz
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--- bttv-driver.orig.c Sat Oct 27 15:48:17 2001
+++ bttv-driver.c Sun Oct 28 22:58:08 2001
@@ -2406,6 +2406,10 @@
flags |= 0x0c;
}
+ if ((0 != btv->risc_cap_even) || (0 != btv->risc_cap_odd))
+ flags |= 0x0c;
+
+
if (bttv_debug > 1)
printk("bttv%d: set_risc_jmp %08lx:",
btv->nr,virt_to_bus(btv->risc_jmp));
