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author <jgarzik@pretzel.yyz.us>2005-05-26 13:03:24 -0400
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>2005-05-26 13:03:24 -0400
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@@ -17,74 +17,53 @@ 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 37
46For Pinnacle PCTV cards use the "cx24110" frontend driver:
47 $ modprobe cx24110
48 38
493b) TwinHan 393b) TwinHan and Clones
50----------- 40--------------------------
51 41
52 $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 42 $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
53 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx 43 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
54 $ modprobe dst 44 $ modprobe dst
55 45
56The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, which 46The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx,
57is necessary for TwinHan cards.# 47which is necessary for TwinHan cards.
58 48
59If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks your 49If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks
60machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the DVB mailing list. 50your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the
51mailing list.
61 52
62The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters, in case the 53The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters.
63dst drivers fails to detect your type of card correctly.
64 54
65dst_type takes values 0 (satellite), 1 (terrestial TV), 2 (cable). 55verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level.
66 56
67dst_type_flags takes bit combined values: 57debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging.
681 = new tuner type packets. You can use this if your card is detected
69 and you have debug and you continually see the tuner packets not
70 working (make sure not a basic problem like dish alignment etc.)
71 58
722 = TS 204. If your card tunes OK, but the picture is terrible, seemingly 59dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card.
73 breaking up in one half continually, and crc fails a lot, then 600x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot.
74 this is worth a try (or trying to turn off)
75 61
764 = has symdiv. Some cards, mostly without new tuner packets, require 62The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response
77 a symbol division algorithm. Doesn't apply to terrestial TV.
78
79You can also specify a value to have the autodetected values turned off
80(e.g. 0). The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response
81string' which you can see in your logs e.g. 63string' which you can see in your logs e.g.
82 64
83dst_check_ci: recognize DST-MOT 65dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI]
84
85or
86 66
87dst_check_ci: unable to recognize DSTXCI or STXCI
88 67
89-- 68--
90Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold 69Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham