On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:12:03PM +0200, Adam Borbely wrote:

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> > > > Starting program: /usr/local/bin/mplayer -monitoraspect 16:10 -xy 2 -fstype none -zoom -vo x11 tv:// -tv driver=bsdbt848:freq=224.25
> > > > Breakpoint 1 at 0xe40da4c: file /usr/src/lib/libsndio/sndio.c, line 292.
> > > > MPlayer SVN-r29414-snapshot-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> > > > 
> > > > Playing tv://.
> > > > TV file format detected.
> > > > Selected driver: bsdbt848
> > > >  name: Brooktree848 Support
> > > >  author: Charles Henrich
> > > >  comment: in development
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  but it's like 10 tears old and
more or less abandoned.

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> upgraded to current solved the segfault problem but now i do not have
> any picture from the tv card only a big blue screen. there are no error
> messages in /var/log/messages or dmesg|tail so the driver reports everything
> is okay. what is the way to have any more detailed info/debug messages  from
> the kernel/driver to see what is going wrong?

maybe try fiddling with the 'input' option.  probably it's using the
composite input or something.  you probably want 'input=1' (see
description of METEORSINPUT in bkrt(4)).

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