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1How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working 1How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working
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3 3
4This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and 41) General information
5require the bttv driver. 5======================
6 6
7Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module 7This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface.
8options below for the DST card. 8The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means
9to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
9 10
101) General informations 112) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12
11======================= 12=========================================
12 13
13These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access 14Enable the following options:
14the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
15 15
16Because 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
20Furthermore 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"
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242) Loading Modules 213) Loading Modules, described by two approaches
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27In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and 24In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
28i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. 25i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver,
29The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and 26which is called the backend.
30TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. 27The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110),
28TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend.
29For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt.
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323a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV 313a) The manual approach
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34 33
35 $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) 34Loading modules:
36 $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) 35modprobe bttv
36modprobe dvb-bt8xx
37 37
38Unloading modules:
39modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx
40modprobe -r bttv
38 41
393b) TwinHan and Clones 423b) The automatic approach
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41 44
42 $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 45If 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 47alias char-major-81 bttv
45
46The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx,
47which is necessary for TwinHan cards.
48
49If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks
50your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the
51mailing list.
52
53The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters:
54 48
55a. verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level. 49Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text:
56b. debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging. 50dvb-bt8xx
57c. dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20:
58- A value of 0 means it is a FTA card.
59- A value of 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot.
60 51
61The autodetected values are determined by the "response string" 52Reboot your system and have fun!
62of the card, which you can see in your logs:
63e.g.: dst_get_device_id: Recognize [DSTMCI]
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66Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla 55Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla