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diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7b1d1b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +How to get the bt8xx cards working +================================== + +1) General information +====================== + +This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and require the bttv driver +for accessing the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. +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" => "Enable Video for Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)" +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 +================== + +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: + +2a) Running TwinHan and Clones +------------------------------ + + $ modprobe bttv card=113 + $ modprobe dst + +Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module: + +verbose=0: messages are disabled + 1: only error messages are displayed + 2: notifications are displayed + 3: other useful messages are displayed + 4: debug setting +dst_addons=0: card is a free to air (FTA) card only + 0x20: card has a conditional access slot for scrambled channels + +The autodetected values are determined by the cards' "response string". +In your logs see f. ex.: dst_get_device_id: Recognize [DSTMCI]. +For bug reports please send in a complete log with verbose=4 activated. +Please also see Documentation/dvb/ci.txt. + +2b) Running multiple cards +-------------------------- + +Examples of card ID's: + +Pinnacle PCTV Sat: 94 +Nebula Electronics Digi TV: 104 +pcHDTV HD-2000 TV: 112 +Twinhan DST and clones: 113 +Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 771: 123 +Avermedia AverTV DVB-T 761: 124 +DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite: 128 +DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite: 135 + +Notice: The order of the card ID should be uprising: +Example: + $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135 + +For a full list of card ID's please see Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv. +In case of further problems please subscribe and send questions to the mailing list: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org. + +2c) Probing the cards with broken PCI subsystem ID +-------------------------------------------------- +There are some TwinHan cards that the EEPROM has become corrupted for some +reason. The cards do not have correct PCI subsystem ID. But we can force +probing the cards with broken PCI subsystem ID + + $ echo 109e 0878 $subvendor $subdevice > \ + /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bt878/new_id + +109e: PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROOKTREE +0878: PCI_DEVICE_ID_BROOKTREE_878 + +Authors: Richard Walker, + Jamie Honan, + Michael Hunold, + Manu Abraham, + Uwe Bugla, + Michael Krufky |