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- call the driver 'bktr' instead of 'brooktree' throughout the document

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- add a HARDWARE section
- add a more descriptive NAME section
- update for recently imported Pinnacle PCTV support
- add Branko Lankester, the original author of the PCTV patches,
  to the AUTHORS section
- bump .Dd

Thanks to all multimedia@ readers who sent me information about
their supported hardware!

MFC after:	1 week
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@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 28, 1998
.Dd December 28, 2004
.Dt BKTR 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm brooktree
.Nd video capture driver
.Nm bktr
.Nd Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 and Pinnacle PCTV video capture driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd device bktr
.Pp
@ -22,24 +22,17 @@ capture and
.Em VBI
capture on low cost, high performance boards.
The driver is based on the Matrox Meteor driver and uses the same API.
The bktr driver should support most video cards
based on the
The
.Nm
driver should support most video cards based on the
.Em "Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 Video Capture Chip" .
The driver also supports
Also supported are most
.Em "Pinnacle PCTV"
video cards.
Furthermore, the driver supports
.Em FM Radio
if the tuner supports it.
.Pp
Specifically, the following cards are known to work:
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
.Em Hauppauge Wincast TV and WinTV/PCI
.Em STB TV PCI Television Tuner
.Em Miro PC TV
.Em Intel Smart Video Recorder III
.Em AverMedia cards
.Em Video Highway XTreme
.Em VideoLogic Captivator PCI
.Ed
.Pp
The driver currently supports the following features:
.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
PCI to PCI dma transfer
@ -50,14 +43,17 @@ rgb24
rgb32
.Ed
.Pp
On these cards, tuners and other components are interconnected with an I2C bus.
On the supported 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.
Therefore,
.Xr iicbus 4 ,
.Xr iicbb 4
and
.Xr smbus 4
controller declarations are mandatory to activate bktr support.
controller declarations are mandatory to activate
.Nm
support.
.Pp
The following kernel parameters may be used to further configure the driver:
.Pp
@ -144,6 +140,53 @@ is set to an integer from 1 to 13 taken from the following table:
.It ALPS_TSBH1
13
.El
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver supports video capture cards based on the
Brooktree Bt848/849/878/879 chips, as well as
Pinnacle PCTV cards, including:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
AOpen VA1000
.It
AVerMedia AVerTV Studio
.It
AVerMedia TF/FM-98
.It
ATI TV Wonder VE
.It
Hauppauge WinCast/TV
.It
Hauppauge WinTV-Go-FM
.It
Hauppauge WinTV-pci
.It
Hauppauge WinTV-radio
.It
Intel Smart Video Recorder III
.It
KWORLD PCI TV Tuner
.It
Miro PC TV
.It
Pinnacle PCTV Pro
.It
Pinnacle PCTV Rave
.It
SIGMA TV II
.It
STB TV PCI Television Tuner
.It
Super TV Tuner
.It
V-Stream XPERT TV-PVR 878
.It
Video Highway XTreme
.It
VideoLogic Captivator PCI
.El
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
This driver is based on the work of
@ -152,6 +195,8 @@ This driver is based on the work of
.An Amancio Hasty Aq hasty@star-gate.com ,
.An Roger Hardiman Aq roger@FreeBSD.org
and a bunch of other people.
Support for Pinnacle PCTV Rave cards was added by
.An Branko Lankester Aq branko@euro.net .
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/examples/meteor -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/examples/meteor