Changes: - rewrote document from scratch - reduced the card ID reference to one proven exception (TwinHan) - added cross references (=>) - added a date to show actual status of development - short, precise, compact info now - no more endless author list Applies against: Kernel 2.6.16 Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx> --- /Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt Wed Mar 23 19:37:00 2006 +++ /Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt Mon Mar 27 12:51:00 2006 @@ -1,118 +1,47 @@ -How to get the Nebula, PCTV, FusionHDTV Lite and Twinhan DST cards working -========================================================================== - -This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and -require the bttv driver. - -Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module -options below for the DST card. - -1) General informations -======================= - -These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access -the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. - -Because of this, you need to enable -"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" - => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" - -Furthermore you need to enable -"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards" - +How to get the bt8xx cards working +================================== + +1) General information +====================== + +The bttv driver accesses the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset +- Card types? => Documentation/dvb/cards.txt => o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge: +- Creating device nodes? => Documentation/dvb/udev.txt + +Compiling kernel: +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" + 2) Loading Modules ================== -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), TwinHan (dst), -FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite (mt352) and FusionHDTV5 Lite (lgdt330x) are loaded -automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. - -3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV / FusionHDTV Lite ---------------------------------------------- - - $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod) - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - -(or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading) - - -3b) TwinHan and Clones --------------------------- +Default cases: bttv and all frontends are loaded automatically +Load backend: a) put dvb-bt8xx in etc/modules or b) apply manually: + + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx + +Exception TwinHan and Clones: overriding autodetection might be necessary +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +a) standalone: - $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - $ modprobe dst + $ modprobe bttv card=113 + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx + $ modprobe dst -The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, -which is necessary for TwinHan cards. Omission of this parameter might result -in a system lockup. - -If you're having an older card (blue color PCB) and card=0x71 locks up -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. - -verbose takes values 0 to 4. These values control the verbosity level, -and can be used to debug also. - -verbose=0 means complete disabling of messages - 1 only error messages are displayed - 2 notifications are also displayed - 3 informational messages are also displayed - 4 debug setting - -dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card. -0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot. - -The autodetected values are determined by the cards 'response string' -which you can see in your logs e.g. - -dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI] - -If you need to sent in bug reports on the dst, please do send in a complete -log with the verbose=4 module parameter. For general usage, the default setting -of verbose=1 is ideal. - - -4) Multiple cards --------------------------- - -If you happen to be running multiple cards, it would be advisable to load -the bttv module with the card id. This would help to solve any module loading -problems that you might face. - -For example, if you have a Twinhan and Clones card along with a FusionHDTV5 Lite - - $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 card=0x87 - -Here the order of the card id is important and should be the same as that of the -physical order of the cards. Here card=0x71 represents the Twinhan and clones -and card=0x87 represents Fusion HDTV5 Lite. These arguments can also be -specified in decimal, rather than hex: - - $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135 - -Some examples of card-id's - -Pinnacle Sat 0x5e (94) -Nebula Digi TV 0x68 (104) -PC HDTV 0x70 (112) -Twinhan 0x71 (113) -FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite 0x80 (128) -FusionHDTV5 Lite 0x87 (135) - -For a full list of card-id's, see the V4L Documentation within the kernel -source: linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv - -If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list. - --- -Authors: Richard Walker, - Jamie Honan, - Michael Hunold, - Manu Abraham, - Michael Krufky +Parameters for dst: +verbose=1: only error messages + 2: notifications + 3: other useful messages + 4: debug setting +dst_addons=0x20: card owns conditional access slot for scrambled channels +- Unscramble channels? => Documentation/dvb/ci.txt + +b) >= 2 cards in a box: Card ID order should be uprising: Example: + + $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135 + +- Card ID list? => Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv +- Questions? Suscribe to mailing list: www.linuxdvb.org + +Uwe Bugla, March 27th, 2006 -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer _______________________________________________ linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
