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| 1 | How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working | 1 | How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working |
| 2 | ========================================================================================= | 2 | ========================================================= |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 1) General information | 4 | This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and |
| 5 | ====================== | 5 | require the bttv driver. |
| 6 | 6 | ||
| 7 | This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface. | 7 | Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module |
| 8 | The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means | 8 | options below for the DST card. |
| 9 | to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. | ||
| 10 | 9 | ||
| 11 | 2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12 | 10 | 1) General informations |
| 12 | ========================================= | 11 | ======================= |
| 13 | 12 | ||
| 14 | Enable the following options: | 13 | These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access |
| 14 | the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. | ||
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | Because of this, you need to enable | ||
| 16 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" | 17 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" |
| 17 | => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" | 18 | => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" |
| 19 | |||
| 20 | Furthermore you need to enable | ||
| 18 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" | 21 | "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" |
| 19 | => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" | 22 | => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards" |
| 20 | 23 | ||
| 21 | 3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches | 24 | 2) Loading Modules |
| 22 | =============================================== | 25 | ================== |
| 23 | 26 | ||
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver, | 28 | i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. |
| 26 | which is called the backend. | 29 | The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and |
| 27 | The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110), | 30 | TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. |
| 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. | ||
| 30 | 31 | ||
| 31 | 3a) The manual approach | 32 | 3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV |
| 32 | ----------------------- | 33 | -------------------------- |
| 33 | 34 | ||
| 34 | Loading modules: | 35 | $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) |
| 35 | modprobe bttv | 36 | $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) |
| 36 | modprobe dvb-bt8xx | ||
| 37 | 37 | ||
| 38 | Unloading modules: | ||
| 39 | modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx | ||
| 40 | modprobe -r bttv | ||
| 41 | 38 | ||
| 42 | 3b) The automatic approach | 39 | 3b) TwinHan and Clones |
| 43 | -------------------------- | 40 | -------------------------- |
| 44 | 41 | ||
| 45 | If not already done by installation, place a line either in | 42 | $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 |
| 46 | /etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text: | 43 | $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx |
| 47 | alias char-major-81 bttv | 44 | $ modprobe dst |
| 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 4. These values control the verbosity level, | ||
| 56 | and can be used to debug also. | ||
| 57 | |||
| 58 | verbose=0 means complete disabling of messages | ||
| 59 | 1 only error messages are displayed | ||
| 60 | 2 notifications are also displayed | ||
| 61 | 3 informational messages are also displayed | ||
| 62 | 4 debug setting | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. | ||
| 65 | 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response | ||
| 68 | string' which you can see in your logs e.g. | ||
| 48 | 69 | ||
| 49 | Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text: | 70 | dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI] |
| 50 | dvb-bt8xx | ||
| 51 | 71 | ||
| 52 | Reboot your system and have fun! | ||
| 53 | 72 | ||
| 54 | -- | 73 | -- |
| 55 | Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla | 74 | Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham |