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diff --git a/share/man/man4/bktr.4 b/share/man/man4/bktr.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7a073f4cf38 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/bktr.4 @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: bktr.4,v 1.1 2002/11/08 19:24:45 mickey Exp $ +.\" $FreeBSD: /c/ncvs/src/share/man/man4/bktr.4,v 1.9.2.5 2001/03/06 19:08:09 ru Exp $ +.\" +.Dd January 28, 1998 +.Dt BKTR 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm bktr +.Nd video capture driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd bktr* at pci? dev ? function ? +.Cd radio* at bktr? +.Pp +.Cd option BROOKTREE_ALLOC_PAGES=nnn +.Cd option BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=XXX +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for PCI video capture and VBI capture on low cost, +high performance boards. +This should support most video cards based on the +Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 Video Capture Chip. +The driver also supports FM Radio if the Tuner supports it. +.Pp +Specifically, the following cards are known to work: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +Hauppage Wincast TV and WinTV/PCI +STB TV PCI Television Tuner +Miro PC TV +Intel Smart Video Recorder III +AverMedia cards +Video Highway XTreme +VideoLogic Captivator PCI +.Ed +.Pp +The driver currently supports the following features: +.Bd -unfilled -offset indent +PCI to PCI dma transfer +clipping +yuv +rgb16 +rgb24 +rgb32 +.Ed +.Pp +On these cards, tuners and other components are interconnected with an I2C bus. +The Brooktree848 chips act as a master device on the bus to control them. +.Pp +The following kernel configuration options are available: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxx +.It Cd option BROOKTREE_ALLOC_PAGES=nnn +Specifies the number of contiguous pages to allocate when successfully +probed. +The default number of pages allocated by the kernel is 216. +This means that there are (216*4096) bytes available for use. +.It Cd option BROOKTREE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT="(BROOKTREE_PAL | BROOKTREE_NTSC)" +One of these options can be used to set the default video format for the driver. +This fixed random hangs and lockups with the VideoLogic Captivator PCI card. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr radio 4 +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver is based on the work of +.An Jim Lowe Aq james@miller.cs.uwm.edu , +.An Mark Tinguely Aq tinguely@plains.nodak.edu , +.An Amancio Hasty Aq hasty@star\-gate.com , +.An Roger Hardiman Aq roger@FreeBSD.org +and a bunch of other people. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 2.2 . |