-How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working
-=========================================================
+How to get the Nebula, PCTV, FusionHDTV Lite and Twinhan DST cards working
+==========================================================================
This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and
require the bttv driver.
Furthermore you need to enable
"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
- => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards"
+ => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards"
2) Loading Modules
==================
In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver.
-The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110) and
-TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver.
+The frontends for Nebula (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV (cx24110), TwinHan (dst),
+FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite (mt352) and FusionHDTV5 Lite (lgdt330x) are loaded
+automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver.
-3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
---------------------------
+3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV / FusionHDTV Lite
+---------------------------------------------
$ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod)
- $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading)
+ $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
+
+(or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading)
3b) TwinHan and Clones
--------------------------
- $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x71
+ $ modprobe bttv card=0x71
$ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
$ modprobe dst
The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx,
-which is necessary for TwinHan cards.
+which is necessary for TwinHan cards. Omission of this parameter might result
+in a system lockup.
-If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks
+If you're having an older card (blue color PCB) and card=0x71 locks up
your machine, try using 0x68, too. If that does not work, ask on the
mailing list.
The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters.
-verbose takes values 0 to 5. These values control the verbosity level.
+verbose takes values 0 to 4. These values control the verbosity level,
+and can be used to debug also.
-debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging.
+verbose=0 means complete disabling of messages
+ 1 only error messages are displayed
+ 2 notifications are also displayed
+ 3 informational messages are also displayed
+ 4 debug setting
dst_addons takes values 0 and 0x20. A value of 0 means it is a FTA card.
0x20 means it has a Conditional Access slot.
-The autodected values are determined bythe cards 'response
-string' which you can see in your logs e.g.
+The autodetected values are determined by the cards 'response string'
+which you can see in your logs e.g.
dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI]
+If you need to sent in bug reports on the dst, please do send in a complete
+log with the verbose=4 module parameter. For general usage, the default setting
+of verbose=1 is ideal.
+
+
+4) Multiple cards
+--------------------------
+
+If you happen to be running multiple cards, it would be advisable to load
+the bttv module with the card id. This would help to solve any module loading
+problems that you might face.
+
+For example, if you have a Twinhan and Clones card along with a FusionHDTV5 Lite
+
+ $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 card=0x87
+
+Here the order of the card id is important and should be the same as that of the
+physical order of the cards. Here card=0x71 represents the Twinhan and clones
+and card=0x87 represents Fusion HDTV5 Lite. These arguments can also be
+specified in decimal, rather than hex:
+
+ $ modprobe bttv card=113 card=135
+
+Some examples of card-id's
+
+Pinnacle Sat 0x5e (94)
+Nebula Digi TV 0x68 (104)
+PC HDTV 0x70 (112)
+Twinhan 0x71 (113)
+FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite 0x80 (128)
+FusionHDTV5 Lite 0x87 (135)
+
+For a full list of card-id's, see the V4L Documentation within the kernel
+source: linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv
+
+If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list.
--
-Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham
+Authors: Richard Walker,
+ Jamie Honan,
+ Michael Hunold,
+ Manu Abraham,
+ Michael Krufky