X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fdvb%2Fbt8xx.txt;fp=Documentation%2Fdvb%2Fbt8xx.txt;h=52ed462061dfdfc1ada13c2708f718755b07aeef;hb=64ba3f394c830ec48a1c31b53dcae312c56f1604;hp=4e7614e606c5675e241bae76e9523534072ae133;hpb=be1e6109ac94a859551f8e1774eb9a8469fe055c;p=linux-2.6.git diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index 4e7614e60..52ed46206 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -1,78 +1,118 @@ -How to get the bt8xx cards working -================================== +How to get the Nebula, PCTV, FusionHDTV Lite and Twinhan DST cards working +========================================================================== -1) General information -====================== +This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and +require the bttv driver. -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: +Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module +options below for the DST card. -Compiling kernel please enable: -a.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" -b.)"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" - => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "Bt8xx based PCI Cards" +1) General informations +======================= + +These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access +the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset. + +Because of this, you need to enable +"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" + => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux" + +Furthermore you need to enable +"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices" + => "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards" 2) Loading Modules ================== -In default cases bttv is loaded automatically. -To load the backend either place dvb-bt8xx in etc/modules, or apply manually: +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), TwinHan (dst), +FusionHDTV DVB-T Lite (mt352) and FusionHDTV5 Lite (lgdt330x) are loaded +automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. + +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) + + +3b) TwinHan and Clones +-------------------------- - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx + $ modprobe bttv card=0x71 + $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx + $ modprobe dst -All frontends will be loaded automatically. -People running udev please see Documentation/dvb/udev.txt. +The value 0x71 will override the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx, +which is necessary for TwinHan cards. Omission of this parameter might result +in a system lockup. -In the following cases overriding the PCI type detection for dvb-bt8xx might be necessary: +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. -2a) Running TwinHan and Clones ------------------------------- +The DST module takes a couple of useful parameters. - $ modprobe bttv card=113 - $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx - $ modprobe dst +verbose takes values 0 to 4. These values control the verbosity level, +and can be used to debug also. -Useful parameters for verbosity level and debugging the dst module: +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 -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 +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 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. +The autodetected values are determined by the cards 'response string' +which you can see in your logs e.g. -2b) Running multiple cards +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 -------------------------- -Examples of card ID's: +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 -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 + $ 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: -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. +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, - Uwe Bugla, Michael Krufky