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@xxxxxx> --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -9,19 +9,29 @@ 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 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. 2) Loading Modules ================== -In default cases bttv is loaded automatically. -To load the backend either place dvb-bt8xx in etc/modules, or apply manually: - - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - -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: @@ -30,7 +40,6 @@ ------------------------------ $ modprobe bttv card=113 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx $ modprobe dst Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module: @@ -65,10 +74,9 @@ 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Notes / Requests for Manu / Michael: If I missed some exceptions in the autoloading feature I would request you to add some further additions there. If I did not miss any please add your SOB. Even if I might miss some profound knowledge on some DVB drivers please do me one favour: Please do not call me "Mauro" or "Big Boss"! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :), as I will never in my life conform to any kind of "dictatorship of mediocrity". Ehem, Manu: Move on coding please :) :) :) :) -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
