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authorJohannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>2005-05-17 00:54:40 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-17 10:59:33 -0400
commitdaeb6aa40be55b0750aea92dea78b8ebc40ca9a8 (patch)
tree25532fb0a65b840a865daf567e195e0a6b314e73
parentfdc53a6dbfea18e621dd23ed5cfb160837d7ce52 (diff)
[PATCH] dvb: bt8xx: update documentation
update bt8xx documentation (Uwe Bugla) Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt29
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
index e3cacf4f2345..d84df8072d7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
@@ -17,34 +17,23 @@ Because of this, you need to enable
17"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" 17"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices"
18 => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" 18 => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
19 19
20Furthermore you need to enable
21"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
22 => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards"
23
202) Loading Modules 242) Loading Modules
21================== 25==================
22 26
23In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and 27In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
24i2c communication for us. Next you need the common dvb-bt8xx device driver 28i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver.
25and one frontend driver. 29The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and
26 30TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver.
27The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE CORRECT
28CARD ID!
29
30(If you don't get your card running and you suspect that the card id you're
31using is wrong, have a look at "bttv-cards.c" for a list of possible card
32ids.)
33
34Pay attention to failures when you load the frontend drivers
35(e.g. dmesg, /var/log/messages).
36 31
373a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV 323a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
38-------------------------- 33--------------------------
39 34
40 $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x68 35 $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod)
41 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx 36 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading)
42
43For Nebula cards use the "nxt6000" frontend driver:
44 $ modprobe nxt6000
45
46For Pinnacle PCTV cards use the "cx24110" frontend driver:
47 $ modprobe cx24110
48 37
493b) TwinHan 383b) TwinHan
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