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Ultra5 and Miro PCTV

2003-05-01
2003-05-02
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    I have a Miro PCTV (from 1997) and an Ultra5 with 128MB and running Solaris9 64bit (haven't tried 09/02 no 12/02 yet) and it works. I am no Solaris expert, but I installed the bt848x-0.2.0beta1.pkg and put card type=1. dmesg gives me this:

    May  1 21:59:37 aika bt848x: [ID 891789 kern.notice] #0 found Bt848 rev 18
    May  1 21:59:37 aika bt848x: [ID 609010 kern.notice] #0 config: card type 1, <MIRO PCTV>
    May  1 21:59:37 aika bt848x: [ID 207299 kern.warning] WARNING: failed in attaching MSP34xx driver
    May  1 21:59:37 aika bt848x: [ID 435055 kern.warning] WARNING: failed in attaching TDA9875 driver

    Running sdlview is ok, the other seems a bit flaky, I haven't tried the radio. I connected the internal sound to the Ultra5 motherboard. Both video in and tvtuner works but I would like to have some channelhopper like xawtv on linux instead of having to find the frequency manually.

    Anyhow, big thanks, this is great! Now I can continue on my quest of doing weird things on Solaris. :)

    You can mail me if you want me to try other stuff with my hardware on psychad at pseudohacker dot org.

    Greetings and stuff - Psychad

     
    • SAWADA Keiji

      SAWADA Keiji - 2003-05-02

      Thank you for trying bt848x and the report.
      As far as I know, you are First challenger, who plugs Miro into SPARC
      machine.

      > Both video in and tvtuner works but I would like to have some
      channelhopper like xawtv on linux instead of having to find the
      frequency manually.

      Yes, me too :-)

      Recently, I'm writing GTK-based GUI controller program, it can alter
      TV channel and other characteristics while using sdl/pgx/ffbview.

      It is under testing, but I think 90% of code is completed.
      I am planning to include it for next release, please be patient.
      (I have already commited it into CVS repository. If you have installed
      CVS and GTK development environment, you can play with it now)

      And I have interest in audio chip support enhancement, so I will ask
      your help in near future.  Current version of bt848x can't handle all
      the features Miro card has...

      Anyway, I am very happy to introduce an oddity abliity of Solaris ;-)

       

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