[Gllug] Using a DVB-T card with Linux

[John Winters]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 18:51 +0000, Julian Somers wrote:
> This readme for the BT878 cards was included in the linuxtv kernel
> patches I grabbed from cvs on Tuesday. It might help.
> 
> Looks like your problem is wrong or missing frontend.
> 
> Julian
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working
> =========================================================
> 
> This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and require the
> bttv driver.
> 
> Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module options
> below for the DST card.
> 
> 1) Loading Modules
> ==================
> 
> In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio
> and i2c communication for us. Next you need the common dvb-bt8xx device
> driver and one frontend driver.
> 
> The bttv driver will HANG YOUR SYSTEM IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THE
> COORECT  CARD ID! A list of possible card ids can be found inside
> "bttv-cards.c" inside the bttv driver package.
> 
> Pay attention to failures to load these frontends.
> (E.g. dmesg, /var/log/messages).
> 
> 2a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
> --------------------------
> 
>    $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 card=0x68
>    $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx
> 
> For Nebula cards use the "nxt6000" frontend driver:
>    $ modprobe nxt6000

Hmmmm.  Yes, this sounds like the information which was missing.  bttv
was loading (and detecting the card id correctly) and I've now added
dvb-bt8xx and nxt6000 as well.  Still can't open any of the devices
under /dev/dvb though.  I wonder whether it's because the bttv module
was loaded automatically and the non-dvb modules have been loaded as
well?  Time for a fresh attempt to penetrate the murky world of Debian
auto-module loading.  My previous attempts at that have all failed
miserably.

John

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