Uwe Bugla wrote: > 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, > Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
