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-version 1.3, 2003/10/28 22:53:10
+version 1.4, 2003/11/25 12:27:33
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- Original Richard Walker
+ How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working
- Modified Jamie Honan, 13 Oct 2003
+ =========================================================
- How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working,
  This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and
  require the bttv driver.
- Line 10  Please pay close attention to the warnin
+ Line 8  Please pay close attention to the warnin
  options below for the DST card.
  For 2.4, make sure you are using an uptodate kernel 2.4.23 and above.
- For 2.6, shuffle down to the 2.6 section below. 2.6 is recommended
+ For 2.6, shuffle down to the 2.6 section below.
- because of it's multimedia latency support, and ease of build.
+) 2.4
+ ======
-.4
- ===
  For 2.4, make sure you are using an uptodate kernel 2.4.23 and above.
  This is the *only* way to go when you are experimenting with
- bleeding-edge stuff like DVB and Dxr3.  Do the usual to build your kernel.
+ bleeding-edge stuff like DVB. Do the usual to build your kernel.
- (remember to enable the V4L functionality)  I'd recommend you install and
+ (remember to enable the V4L functionality)
- test your kernel, rather than diving straight into the bt878 stuff.
- Download http://bytesex.org/patches/2.4.xxx/11-v4l2-api-2.4.xxxxxx.diff.gz and
- apply this to your kernel source tree.  For example:
-   $ cd /usr/src
-   $ patch -p0 < ~/11-v4l2-api-2.4.xxxx-rc4.diff
- This will patch your kernel to include support for VideoForLinux 2.
+ I'd recommend you install and  test your kernel, rather than diving
+ straight into the bt878 stuff.
- For those who don't know, kernels < 2.5 only support V4L 1 out-of-the-box. If
+ Download http://bytesex.org/snapshot/video4linux-xxxxyyzz.tar.gz, where
- you are using kernel 2.5.x (or 2.6.x) then V4L2 is built-in.
+ xxxxyyzz is the date of the release.
- You need to use 'dvb-kernel', along with 'bttv' to talk to your card.
+ Extract it and do the usual "make" and "make install".
+   $ tar xzfv video4linux-xxxxyyzz.tar.gz
- Download http://bytesex.org/bttv/bttv-0.9.12.tar.gz or above and unpack it.
+   $ make
- This is the first version that will not hang your card.
+   $ make install
- You may find this in the http://bytesex.org/snapshots directory.
+ Now grab "dvb-kernel" from CVS:
- Using this version of
- Grab dvb-kernel from CVS:
    $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv login
    $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co dvb-kernel
- No patching of bttv is required from any patches in the dvb-kernel
+ ... and build the driver:
- tree. (You do have to do the v4l stuff above).
- Not, at last, the DVB stuff can be built!  Just do it the usual way:
    $ cd dvb-kernel/build-2.4
    $ ./getlinks
    $ make
    $ make install
-.6
+) 2.6
- ===
+ ======
- For 2.6, life is a lot easier, assuming you use 2.6.0-test7 and above.
- The bttv does not need to be patched.
- Checkout dvb-kernel.
- Do everything as per the README in dvb-kernel.
- Loading Modules
+ For 2.6, you don't need the latest bttv driver, everything is in
- ===============
+ the kernel drivers. Please use 2.6.0-test10 and above.
- Use and modify the insmod-bt8xx.sh script in the build-2.4 directory
+ Checkout dvb-kernel as mentionen above, but then do everything as per
- to start and stop your drivers.
+ the README in dvb-kernel.
- The insmod script should be modified so that one of:
+) Loading Modules
+ ==================
-         # Nebula
+ You can either modify and use the "insmod-bt8xx.sh" script in the build-2.4
-         insmod nxt6000.o
+ directory or simply do everything by hand.
-         # or Pinnacle PCTV
-         insmod cx24110.o
-         # or DST
-         insmod dst.o
- is selected as a frontend.
+ In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
+ i2c communication for us. Next you need the common dvb-bt8xx device driver
+ and one frontend driver.
- Note well. The
+ The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE COORECT
+ CARD ID! A list of possible card ids can be found inside "bttv-cards.c" inside
-         insmod bttv.o i2c_hw=1 card=0x68
+ the bttv driver package.
- The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE CARD
- FOR THE DST!
  Pay attention to failures to load these frontends.
  (E.g. dmesg, /var/log/messages).
- For DST cards, you can also use card type 0x71 for bttv module params,
+a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
- providing the bttv version supports this. (The ones from bytesex/snapshots do).
+ --------------------------
+    $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x68
+    $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
+ For Nebula cards use the "nxt6000" frontend driver:
+    $ modprobe nxt6000
+ For Pinnacle PCTV cards use the "cx24110" frontend driver:
+    $ modprobe cx24110
+b) TwinHan
+ -----------
+    $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
+    $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
+    $ modprobe dst
- If you use this value, 0x71, it will override the PCI type detection
+ The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, which
- for dvb-bt8xx.
+ is necessary for TwinHan cards.
  The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters, in case the
  dst drivers fails to detect your type of card correctly.
- Line 124  or
+ Line 116  or
  dst_check_ci: unable to recognize DSTXCI or STXCI
- Cheers,
+) The rest
- Richard Walker,
+ ===========
- addendum (without permission: mistakes are therefore mine)
+ That's it. Have fun. Report problems to the mailing list. Thanks!
- Jamie Honan
+ --
+ Authors:
+ Richard Walker (Original)
+ Jamie Honan (13 Oct 2003)
+ Michael Hunold (25 Nov 2003)

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