2000-12-30 05:46:27

by George

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Subject: bttv in 2.2.18 worse than 2.2.17


With 2.2.18, I've noticed a few problems with my Hauppauge Win/TV 401
(bt878) card not present in 2.2.17 (using XawTV 2.46 in overlay mode for
both):

1) Switching channels causes a brief flicker where the picture shrinks to
1/4 the size in the upper left corner, then changes to the next channel.

2) JPEG captures cause a purple and green fuzzy screen to briefly flash in
place of the television image.

3) The first time I run XawTV after loading the module, I get no picture
until I change Television -> Composite -> Television. Subsequent runs are
fine.

Video card is an S3 Virge DX.

00:14.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hauppage computer works Inc.: Unknown device 13eb
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 16 min, 40 max, 32 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at e4001000 (32-bit, prefetchable)

00:14.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hauppage computer works Inc.: Unknown device 13eb
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 4 min, 255 max, 32 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at e4002000 (32-bit, prefetchable)

00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 4 min, 255 max, 32 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Two Pentium 233MMX, Tyan Tomcat IV SMP motherboard (Triton HX chipset)

Just changing the array value back to 3 that was flipped 3->4 in the 2.2.18
patch doesn't do anything by itself.

-George Greer