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V4L/DVB (5701): Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt update
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This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the
actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Uwe Bugla authored and Mauro Carvalho Chehab committed Jul 18, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -9,19 +9,29 @@ for accessing the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
Please see Documentation/dvb/cards.txt => o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge:

Compiling kernel please enable:
a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
=> "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards"
a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Enable Video for Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)"
b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Video Capture Adapters" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
c.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards"

2) Loading Modules
==================
Please use the following options with care as deselection of drivers which are in fact necessary
may result in DVB devices that cannot be tuned due to lack of driver support:
You can save RAM by deselecting every frontend module that your DVB card does not need.

First please remove the static dependency of DVB card drivers on all frontend modules for all possible card variants by enabling:
d.) "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
=> "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Load and attach frontend modules as needed"

In default cases bttv is loaded automatically.
To load the backend either place dvb-bt8xx in etc/modules, or apply manually:
If you know the frontend driver that your card needs please enable:
e.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
=> "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Customise DVB Frontends" => "Customise the frontend modules to build"
Then please select your card-specific frontend module.

$ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
2) Loading Modules
==================

All frontends will be loaded automatically.
Regular case: If the bttv driver detects a bt8xx-based DVB card, all frontend and backend modules will be loaded automatically.
Exceptions are:
- Old TwinHan DST cards or clones with or without CA slot and not containing an Eeprom.
People running udev please see Documentation/dvb/udev.txt.

In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx might be necessary:
Expand All @@ -30,7 +40,6 @@ In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx might be
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$ modprobe bttv card=113
$ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
$ modprobe dst

Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module:
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Notice: The order of the card ID should be uprising:
Example:
$ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135
$ modprobe dvb-bt8xx

For a full list of card ID's please see Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv.
In case of further problems send questions to the mailing list: www.linuxdvb.org.
In case of further problems please subscribe and send questions to the mailing list: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org.

Authors: Richard Walker,
Jamie Honan,
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