From 714d03f3747f149141de88a3664114460ddb9297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uwe Bugla Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:58:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 4359 b: refs/heads/master c: a2f552f5edc13e18b75f11fb1b08bbcad67fd362 h: refs/heads/master i: 4357: 60a4e8ffa7f6ad70ffbd551c7e40cedd5f45f441 4355: a3df1f29ba35d14caa09ac81e86272ed7e2acd4f 4351: fd5d2295082f60c95ad07bf0fa8ff3569068ee06 v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 79 +++++++++++++------------------ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 3947b3be8990..7a9ae9a70a4a 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 3352e432d5705aaa9b58d8d97b1ccc81eb4bc0fd +refs/heads/master: a2f552f5edc13e18b75f11fb1b08bbcad67fd362 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/trunk/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index 3a3260794758..e6b8d05bc08d 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -1,66 +1,55 @@ -How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working -========================================================= +How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working +========================================================================================= -This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and -require the bttv driver. +1) General information +====================== -Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module -options below for the DST card. +This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface. +The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means +to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. -1) General informations -======================= +2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12 +========================================= -These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access -the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. +Enable the following options: -Because of this, you need to enable "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" - => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" - -Furthermore you need to enable + => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards" -2) Loading Modules -================== +3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches +=============================================== In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and -i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver. -The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and -TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. +i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver, +which is called the backend. +The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110), +TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend. +For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt. -3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV --------------------------- +3a) The manual approach +----------------------- - $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) +Loading modules: +modprobe bttv +modprobe dvb-bt8xx +Unloading modules: +modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx +modprobe -r bttv -3b) TwinHan and Clones +3b) The automatic approach -------------------------- - $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - $ modprobe dst - -The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, -which is necessary for TwinHan cards. - -If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks -your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the -mailing list. - -The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters: +If not already done by installation, place a line either in +/etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text: +alias char-major-81 bttv -a. verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level. -b. debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging. -c. dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20: -- A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. -- A value of 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. +Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text: +dvb-bt8xx -The autodetected values are determined by the "response string" -of the card, which you can see in your logs: -e.g.: dst_get_device_id: Recognize [DSTMCI] +Reboot your system and have fun! -- Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla