Hi folks, although this patch is fine and necessary it has been blocked and ignored for months by the following so-called "maintainers" who are a tall order and a shame for the whole linux community: a. Manuel Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx> b. Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> I vote for excluding Manuel Abraham from maintainership, as we all need communicatable, reliable and accurate maintainers, no mismatches! This patch fixes the documentation for dvb-bt8xx cards, synchronizing it to the actual state of kernel development. Please sign-off or ack this only in connection with the DST deselection patch (i. e. patch 2 / 3) Written and Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@xxxxxx> --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -9,9 +9,33 @@ 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" +a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "Enable Video for Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)" -b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" +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" + +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 or DST 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" + +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. + +Do you use one of the following cards? +1. Twinhan DST (FTA and CI) family (DVB-S/C/T/ATSC) +2. Pinnacle PCTV SAT CI +3. Chaintech DST-1000 +4. DNTV Live ! + +If not you can save additional RAM by enabling: +f.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" + "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" => "Customise DST support" => "Customise DST modules to build" + Then please deselect "DST module" and "DST CA module" 2) Loading Modules ================== @@ -68,7 +92,7 @@ $ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, P. S.: "There are two things that are infinite and endless: The human stupidity and the universe. While I am sometimes doubting about the universe I am damn sure as far as the human stupidity is concerned." ALBERT EINSTEIN -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: www.gmx.net/de/go/mailfooter/topmail-out _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
