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| 1 | How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working | 1 | How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working |
| 2 | ========================================================= | 2 | ========================================================================================= |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and | 4 | 1) General information |
| 5 | require the bttv driver. | 5 | ====================== |
| 6 | 6 | ||
| 7 | Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module | 7 | This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface. |
| 8 | options below for the DST card. | 8 | The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means |
| 9 | to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. | ||
| 9 | 10 | ||
| 10 | 1) General informations | 11 | 2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12 |
| 11 | ======================= | 12 | ========================================= |
| 12 | 13 | ||
| 13 | These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access | 14 | Enable the following options: |
| 14 | the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. | ||
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | Because of this, you need to enable | ||
| 17 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" | 16 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" |
| 18 | => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" | 17 | => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" |
| 19 | |||
| 20 | Furthermore you need to enable | ||
| 21 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" | 18 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" |
| 22 | => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" | 19 | => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" |
| 23 | 20 | ||
| 24 | 2) Loading Modules | 21 | 3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches |
| 25 | ================== | 22 | =============================================== |
| 26 | 23 | ||
| 27 | In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and | 24 | In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and |
| 28 | i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. | 25 | i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver, |
| 29 | The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and | 26 | which is called the backend. |
| 30 | TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. | 27 | The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110), |
| 28 | TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend. | ||
| 29 | For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt. | ||
| 31 | 30 | ||
| 32 | 3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV | 31 | 3a) The manual approach |
| 33 | -------------------------- | 32 | ----------------------- |
| 34 | 33 | ||
| 35 | $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) | 34 | Loading modules: |
| 36 | $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) | 35 | modprobe bttv |
| 36 | modprobe dvb-bt8xx | ||
| 37 | 37 | ||
| 38 | Unloading modules: | ||
| 39 | modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx | ||
| 40 | modprobe -r bttv | ||
| 38 | 41 | ||
| 39 | 3b) TwinHan and Clones | 42 | 3b) The automatic approach |
| 40 | -------------------------- | 43 | -------------------------- |
| 41 | 44 | ||
| 42 | $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 | 45 | If not already done by installation, place a line either in |
| 43 | $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx | 46 | /etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text: |
| 44 | $ modprobe dst | 47 | alias char-major-81 bttv |
| 45 | |||
| 46 | The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, | ||
| 47 | which is necessary for TwinHan cards. | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks | ||
| 50 | your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the | ||
| 51 | mailing list. | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters. | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level. | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging. | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. | ||
| 60 | 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response | ||
| 63 | string' which you can see in your logs e.g. | ||
| 64 | 48 | ||
| 65 | dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI] | 49 | Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text: |
| 50 | dvb-bt8xx | ||
| 66 | 51 | ||
| 52 | Reboot your system and have fun! | ||
| 67 | 53 | ||
| 68 | -- | 54 | -- |
| 69 | Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham | 55 | Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla |