Annotation of dvb-kernel/README.bt8xx, revision 1.9
1.4 hunold 1: How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working
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1.6 hunold 4: This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and require the
5: bttv driver.
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1.6 hunold 7: Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module options
8: below for the DST card.
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1.8 hunold 10: 1) Loading Modules
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1.6 hunold 13: In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio
14: and i2c communication for us. Next you need the common dvb-bt8xx device
15: driver and one frontend driver.
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17: The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE
18: COORECT CARD ID! A list of possible card ids can be found inside
1.7 hunold 19: "bttv-cards.c" inside the bttv driver package.
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1.2 honan 21: Pay attention to failures to load these frontends.
22: (E.g. dmesg, /var/log/messages).
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1.8 hunold 24: 2a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
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27: $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x68
28: $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
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30: For Nebula cards use the "nxt6000" frontend driver:
31: $ modprobe nxt6000
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33: For Pinnacle PCTV cards use the "cx24110" frontend driver:
34: $ modprobe cx24110
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1.9 ! manu 36: 2b) TwinHan and Clones
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39: $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
40: $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
41: $ modprobe dst
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1.6 hunold 43: The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx,
1.7 hunold 44: which is necessary for TwinHan cards.
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46: If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks
47: your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the
48: mailing list.
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1.9 ! manu 50: The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters.
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1.9 ! manu 52: verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level.
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1.9 ! manu 54: debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging.
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1.9 ! manu 56: dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card.
! 57: 0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot.
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1.9 ! manu 59: The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response
1.3 honan 60: string' which you can see in your logs e.g.
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1.9 ! manu 62: dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI]
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