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| author | Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> | 2005-05-17 00:54:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-17 10:59:33 -0400 |
| commit | daeb6aa40be55b0750aea92dea78b8ebc40ca9a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 25532fb0a65b840a865daf567e195e0a6b314e73 /Documentation/dvb | |
| parent | fdc53a6dbfea18e621dd23ed5cfb160837d7ce52 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dvb')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 29 |
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 | ||
| 20 | Furthermore 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 | |||
| 20 | 2) Loading Modules | 24 | 2) Loading Modules |
| 21 | ================== | 25 | ================== |
| 22 | 26 | ||
| 23 | In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and | 27 | In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and |
| 24 | i2c communication for us. Next you need the common dvb-bt8xx device driver | 28 | i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. |
| 25 | and one frontend driver. | 29 | The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and |
| 26 | 30 | TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. | |
| 27 | The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE CORRECT | ||
| 28 | CARD ID! | ||
| 29 | |||
| 30 | (If you don't get your card running and you suspect that the card id you're | ||
| 31 | using is wrong, have a look at "bttv-cards.c" for a list of possible card | ||
| 32 | ids.) | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | Pay attention to failures when you load the frontend drivers | ||
| 35 | (e.g. dmesg, /var/log/messages). | ||
| 36 | 31 | ||
| 37 | 3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV | 32 | 3a) 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 | |||
| 43 | For Nebula cards use the "nxt6000" frontend driver: | ||
| 44 | $ modprobe nxt6000 | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | For Pinnacle PCTV cards use the "cx24110" frontend driver: | ||
| 47 | $ modprobe cx24110 | ||
| 48 | 37 | ||
| 49 | 3b) TwinHan | 38 | 3b) TwinHan |
| 50 | ----------- | 39 | ----------- |
