-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
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