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| author | Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> | 2005-11-08 21:35:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-09 07:56:03 -0800 |
| commit | 28fdd7599cb9c6c620caf13bcaea41e2532cb5fd (patch) | |
| tree | 9323b4e051f5d2ac40b599b89d04737513cd25c8 /Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | |
| parent | c0b11b914de27e0e82b5311cf9b498a1b008b591 (diff) | |
[PATCH] dvb: Updated Documentation
Updated Documentation
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt | 43 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt index cb63b7a93c82..ac3af17f2b6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt @@ -33,20 +33,23 @@ TwinHan (dst) are loaded automatically by the dvb-bt8xx device driver. -------------------------- $ 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. @@ -69,6 +72,38 @@ 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 happen to have a Twinhan and clones alongwith a FusionHDTV5 +card + + $ 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. + +Some examples of card-id's + +Pinnacle Sat 0x5e +Nebula Digi TV 0x68 +PC HDTV 0x70 +Twinhan 0x71 +Fusion HDTV5 0x87 + +For a full list of card-id's, you can see the exported card-id's from +bttv-cards.c in linux-2.6.x/drivers/media/video/bttv.h +If you have problems with this please do ask on the mailing list. -- Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham |