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-Documentation for dib3000* frontend drivers and dibusb device driver
-====================================================================
-
-Copyright (C) 2004-5 Patrick Boettcher (patrick.boettcher@desy.de),
-
-dibusb and dib3000mb/mc drivers based on GPL code, which has
-
-Copyright (C) 2004 Amaury Demol for DiBcom (ademol@dibcom.fr)
-
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
-
-
-Supported devices USB1.1
-========================
-
-Produced and reselled by Twinhan:
----------------------------------
-- TwinhanDTV USB-Ter DVB-T Device (VP7041)
- http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_3.asp
-
-- TwinhanDTV Magic Box (VP7041e)
- http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_4.asp
-
-- HAMA DVB-T USB device
- http://www.hama.de/portal/articleId*110620/action*2598
-
-- CTS Portable (Chinese Television System) (2)
- http://www.2cts.tv/ctsportable/
-
-- Unknown USB DVB-T device with vendor ID Hyper-Paltek
-
-
-Produced and reselled by KWorld:
---------------------------------
-- KWorld V-Stream XPERT DTV DVB-T USB
- http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/product/DVBT-USB/DVBT-USB.html
-
-- JetWay DTV DVB-T USB
- http://www.jetway.com.tw/evisn/product/lcd-tv/DVT-USB/dtv-usb.htm
-
-- ADSTech Instant TV DVB-T USB
- http://www.adstech.com/products/PTV-333/intro/PTV-333_intro.asp?pid=PTV-333
-
-
-Others:
--------
-- Ultima Electronic/Artec T1 USB TVBOX (AN2135, AN2235, AN2235 with Panasonic Tuner)
- http://82.161.246.249/products-tvbox.html
-
-- Compro Videomate DVB-U2000 - DVB-T USB (2)
- http://www.comprousa.com/products/vmu2000.htm
-
-- Grandtec USB DVB-T
- http://www.grand.com.tw/
-
-- Avermedia AverTV DVBT USB (2)
- http://www.avermedia.com/
-
-- DiBcom USB DVB-T reference device (non-public)
-
-
-Supported devices USB2.0
-========================
-- Twinhan MagicBox II (2)
- http://www.twinhan.com/product_terrestrial_7.asp
-
-- Hanftek UMT-010 (1)
- http://www.globalsources.com/si/6008819757082/ProductDetail/Digital-TV/product_id-100046529
-
-- Typhoon/Yakumo/HAMA DVB-T mobile USB2.0 (1)
- http://www.yakumo.de/produkte/index.php?pid=1&ag=DVB-T
-
-- Artec T1 USB TVBOX (FX2) (2)
-
-- Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2
- http://www.hauppauge.com/
-
-- KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0 (DiB3000M-B)
-
-- DiBcom USB2.0 DVB-T reference device (non-public)
-
-1) It is working almost.
-2) No test reports received yet.
-
-
-0. NEWS:
- 2005-02-11 - added support for the KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0. Thanks a lot to Joachim von Caron
- 2005-02-02 - added support for the Hauppauge Win-TV Nova-T USB2
- 2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is finally gone for USB1.1 devices
- 2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb
- - first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010
- - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predessors of the HanfTek UMT-010
- 2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful
- - tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a
- Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich.
- 2004-12-29 - after several days of struggling around bug of no returning URBs fixed.
- 2004-12-26 - refactored the dibusb-driver, splitted into separate files
- - i2c-probing enabled
- 2004-12-06 - possibility for demod i2c-address probing
- - new usb IDs (Compro,Artec)
- 2004-11-23 - merged changes from DiB3000MC_ver2.1
- - revised the debugging
- - possibility to deliver the complete TS for USB2.0
- 2004-11-21 - first working version of the dib3000mc/p frontend driver.
- 2004-11-12 - added additional remote control keys. Thanks to Uwe Hanke.
- 2004-11-07 - added remote control support. Thanks to David Matthews.
- 2004-11-05 - added support for a new devices (Grandtec/Avermedia/Artec)
- - merged my changes (for dib3000mb/dibusb) to the FE_REFACTORING, because it became HEAD
- - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems
- better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct)
- - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb)
- 2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek)
- 2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks
- to Amaury Demol for reporting
- - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer
- before setting a new pid)
- 2004-09-13 - added support for a new device (Artec T1 USB TVBOX), thanks
- to Christian Motschke for reporting
- 2004-09-05 - released the dibusb device and dib3000mb-frontend driver
-
- (old news for vp7041.c)
- 2004-07-15 - found out, by accident, that the device has a TUA6010XS for
- PLL
- 2004-07-12 - figured out, that the driver should also work with the
- CTS Portable (Chinese Television System)
- 2004-07-08 - firmware-extraction-2.422-problem solved, driver is now working
- properly with firmware extracted from 2.422
- - #if for 2.6.4 (dvb), compile issue
- - changed firmware handling, see vp7041.txt sec 1.1
- 2004-07-02 - some tuner modifications, v0.1, cleanups, first public
- 2004-06-28 - now using the dvb_dmx_swfilter_packets, everything
- runs fine now
- 2004-06-27 - able to watch and switching channels (pre-alpha)
- - no section filtering yet
- 2004-06-06 - first TS received, but kernel oops :/
- 2004-05-14 - firmware loader is working
- 2004-05-11 - start writing the driver
-
-1. How to use?
-NOTE: This driver was developed using Linux 2.6.6.,
-it is working with 2.6.7 and above.
-
-Linux 2.4.x support is not planned, but patches are very welcome.
-
-NOTE: I'm using Debian testing, so the following explaination (especially
-the hotplug-path) needn't match your system, but probably it will :).
-
-The driver is included in the kernel since Linux 2.6.10.
-
-1.1. Firmware
-
-The USB driver needs to download a firmware to start working.
-
-You can either use "get_dvb_firmware dibusb" to download the firmware or you
-can get it directly via
-
-for USB1.1 (AN2135)
-http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-5.0.0.11.fw
-
-for USB1.1 (AN2235) (a few Artec T1 devices)
-http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw
-
-for USB2.0 (FX2) Hauppauge, DiBcom
-http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-6.0.0.5.fw
-
-for USB2.0 ADSTech/Kworld USB2.0
-http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-adstech-usb2-1.fw
-
-for USB2.0 HanfTek
-http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-dibusb-an2235-1.fw
-
-
-1.2. Compiling
-
-Since the driver is in the linux kernel, activating the driver in
-your favorite config-environment should sufficient. I recommend
-to compile the driver as module. Hotplug does the rest.
-
-1.3. Loading the drivers
-
-Hotplug is able to load the driver, when it is needed (because you plugged
-in the device).
-
-If you want to enable debug output, you have to load the driver manually and
-from withing the dvb-kernel cvs repository.
-
-first have a look, which debug level are available:
-
-modinfo dib3000mb
-modinfo dib3000-common
-modinfo dib3000mc
-modinfo dvb-dibusb
-
-modprobe dib3000-common debug=<level>
-modprobe dib3000mb debug=<level>
-modprobe dib3000mc debug=<level>
-modprobe dvb-dibusb debug=<level>
-
-should do the trick.
-
-When the driver is loaded successfully, the firmware file was in
-the right place and the device is connected, the "Power"-LED should be
-turned on.
-
-At this point you should be able to start a dvb-capable application. For myself
-I used mplayer, dvbscan, tzap and kaxtv, they are working. Using the device
-in vdr is working now also.
-
-2. Known problems and bugs
-
-- Don't remove the USB device while running an DVB application, your system will die.
-
-2.1. Adding support for devices
-
-It is not possible to determine the range of devices based on the DiBcom
-reference designs. This is because the reference design of DiBcom can be sold
-to thirds, without telling DiBcom (so done with the Twinhan VP7041 and
-the HAMA device).
-
-When you think you have a device like this and the driver does not recognizes it,
-please send the ****load*.inf and the ****cap*.inf of the Windows driver to me.
-
-Sometimes the Vendor or Product ID is identical to the ones of Twinhan, even
-though it is not a Twinhan device (e.g. HAMA), then please send me the name
-of the device. I will add it to this list in order to make this clear to
-others.
-
-If you are familar with C you can also add the VID and PID of the device to
-the dvb-dibusb-core.c-file and create a patch and send it over to me or to
-the linux-dvb mailing list, _after_ you have tried compiling and modprobing
-it.
-
-2.2. USB1.1 Bandwidth limitation
-
-Most of the currently supported devices are USB1.1 and thus they have a
-maximum bandwidth of about 5-6 MBit/s when connected to a USB2.0 hub.
-This is not enough for receiving the complete transport stream of a
-DVB-T channel (which can be about 16 MBit/s). Normally this is not a
-problem, if you only want to watch TV (this does not apply for HDTV),
-but watching a channel while recording another channel on the same
-frequency simply does not work very well. This applies to all USB1.1
-DVB-T devices, not just dibusb)
-
-Update: For the USB1.1 and VDR some work has been done (patches and comments
-are still very welcome). Maybe the problem is solved in the meantime because I
-now use the dmx_sw_filter function instead of dmx_sw_filter_packet. I hope the
-linux-dvb software filter is able to get the best of the garbled TS.
-
-The bug, where the TS is distorted by a heavy usage of the device is gone
-definitely. All dibusb-devices I was using (Twinhan, Kworld, DiBcom) are
-working like charm now with VDR. Sometimes I even was able to record a channel
-and watch another one.
-
-2.3. Comments
-
-Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome.
-
-3. Acknowledgements
- Amaury Demol (ademol@dibcom.fr) and Francois Kanounnikoff from DiBcom for
- providing specs, code and help, on which the dvb-dibusb, dib3000mb and
- dib3000mc are based.
-
- David Matthews for identifying a new device type (Artec T1 with AN2235)
- and for extending dibusb with remote control event handling. Thank you.
-
- Alex Woods for frequently answering question about usb and dvb
- stuff, a big thank you.
-
- Bernd Wagner for helping with huge bug reports and discussions.
-
- Gunnar Wittich and Joachim von Caron for their trust for giving me
- root-shells on their machines to implement support for new devices.
-
- Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me
-
- Peter Schildmann >peter.schildmann-nospam-at-web.de< for his
- user-level firmware loader, which saves a lot of time
- (when writing the vp7041 driver)
-
- Ulf Hermenau for helping me out with traditional chinese.
-
- André Smoktun and Christian Frömmel for supporting me with
- hardware and listening to my problems very patient
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ac0797ea646c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/dvb/README.dvb-usb
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+Documentation for dvb-usb-framework module and its devices
+
+Idea behind the dvb-usb-framework
+=================================
+
+In March 2005 I got the new Twinhan USB2.0 DVB-T device. They provided specs and a firmware.
+
+Quite keen I wanted to put the driver (with some quirks of course) into dibusb.
+After reading some specs and doing some USB snooping, it realized, that the
+dibusb-driver would be a complete mess afterwards. So I decided to do it in a
+different way: With the help of a dvb-usb-framework.
+
+The framework provides generic functions (mostly kernel API calls), such as:
+
+- Transport Stream URB handling in conjunction with dvb-demux-feed-control
+ (bulk and isoc are supported)
+- registering the device for the DVB-API
+- registering an I2C-adapter if applicable
+- remote-control/input-device handling
+- firmware requesting and loading (currently just for the Cypress USB
+ controllers)
+- other functions/methods which can be shared by several drivers (such as
+ functions for bulk-control-commands)
+- TODO: a I2C-chunker. It creates device-specific chunks of register-accesses
+ depending on length of a register and the number of values that can be
+ multi-written and multi-read.
+
+The source code of the particular DVB USB devices does just the communication
+with the device via the bus. The connection between the DVB-API-functionality
+is done via callbacks, assigned in a static device-description (struct
+dvb_usb_device) each device-driver has to have.
+
+For an example have a look in drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/vp7045*.
+
+Objective is to migrate all the usb-devices (dibusb, cinergyT2, maybe the
+ttusb; flexcop-usb already benefits from the generic flexcop-device) to use
+the dvb-usb-lib.
+
+TODO: dynamic enabling and disabling of the pid-filter in regard to number of
+feeds requested.
+
+Supported devices
+========================
+
+See the LinuxTV DVB Wiki at www.linuxtv.org for a complete list of
+cards/drivers/firmwares:
+
+http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB
+
+0. History & News:
+ 2005-06-30 - added support for WideView WT-220U (Thanks to Steve Chang)
+ 2005-05-30 - added basic isochronous support to the dvb-usb-framework
+ added support for Conexant Hybrid reference design and Nebula DigiTV USB
+ 2005-04-17 - all dibusb devices ported to make use of the dvb-usb-framework
+ 2005-04-02 - re-enabled and improved remote control code.
+ 2005-03-31 - ported the Yakumo/Hama/Typhoon DVB-T USB2.0 device to dvb-usb.
+ 2005-03-30 - first commit of the dvb-usb-module based on the dibusb-source. First device is a new driver for the
+ TwinhanDTV Alpha / MagicBox II USB2.0-only DVB-T device.
+
+ (change from dvb-dibusb to dvb-usb)
+ 2005-03-28 - added support for the AVerMedia AverTV DVB-T USB2.0 device (Thanks to Glen Harris and Jiun-Kuei Jung, AVerMedia)
+ 2005-03-14 - added support for the Typhoon/Yakumo/HAMA DVB-T mobile USB2.0
+ 2005-02-11 - added support for the KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0. Thanks a lot to Joachim von Caron
+ 2005-02-02 - added support for the Hauppauge Win-TV Nova-T USB2
+ 2005-01-31 - distorted streaming is gone for USB1.1 devices
+ 2005-01-13 - moved the mirrored pid_filter_table back to dvb-dibusb
+ - first almost working version for HanfTek UMT-010
+ - found out, that Yakumo/HAMA/Typhoon are predecessors of the HanfTek UMT-010
+ 2005-01-10 - refactoring completed, now everything is very delightful
+ - tuner quirks for some weird devices (Artec T1 AN2235 device has sometimes a
+ Panasonic Tuner assembled). Tunerprobing implemented. Thanks a lot to Gunnar Wittich.
+ 2004-12-29 - after several days of struggling around bug of no returning URBs fixed.
+ 2004-12-26 - refactored the dibusb-driver, splitted into separate files
+ - i2c-probing enabled
+ 2004-12-06 - possibility for demod i2c-address probing
+ - new usb IDs (Compro, Artec)
+ 2004-11-23 - merged changes from DiB3000MC_ver2.1
+ - revised the debugging
+ - possibility to deliver the complete TS for USB2.0
+ 2004-11-21 - first working version of the dib3000mc/p frontend driver.
+ 2004-11-12 - added additional remote control keys. Thanks to Uwe Hanke.
+ 2004-11-07 - added remote control support. Thanks to David Matthews.
+ 2004-11-05 - added support for a new devices (Grandtec/Avermedia/Artec)
+ - merged my changes (for dib3000mb/dibusb) to the FE_REFACTORING, because it became HEAD
+ - moved transfer control (pid filter, fifo control) from usb driver to frontend, it seems
+ better settled there (added xfer_ops-struct)
+ - created a common files for frontends (mc/p/mb)
+ 2004-09-28 - added support for a new device (Unkown, vendor ID is Hyper-Paltek)
+ 2004-09-20 - added support for a new device (Compro DVB-U2000), thanks
+ to Amaury Demol for reporting
+ - changed usb TS transfer method (several urbs, stopping transfer
+ before setting a new pid)
+ 2004-09-13 - added support for a new device (Artec T1 USB TVBOX), thanks
+ to Christian Motschke for reporting
+ 2004-09-05 - released the dibusb device and dib3000mb-frontend driver
+
+ (old news for vp7041.c)
+ 2004-07-15 - found out, by accident, that the device has a TUA6010XS for
+ PLL
+ 2004-07-12 - figured out, that the driver should also work with the
+ CTS Portable (Chinese Television System)
+ 2004-07-08 - firmware-extraction-2.422-problem solved, driver is now working
+ properly with firmware extracted from 2.422
+ - #if for 2.6.4 (dvb), compile issue
+ - changed firmware handling, see vp7041.txt sec 1.1
+ 2004-07-02 - some tuner modifications, v0.1, cleanups, first public
+ 2004-06-28 - now using the dvb_dmx_swfilter_packets, everything
+ runs fine now
+ 2004-06-27 - able to watch and switching channels (pre-alpha)
+ - no section filtering yet
+ 2004-06-06 - first TS received, but kernel oops :/
+ 2004-05-14 - firmware loader is working
+ 2004-05-11 - start writing the driver
+
+1. How to use?
+1.1. Firmware
+
+Most of the USB drivers need to download a firmware to the device before start
+working.
+
+Have a look at the Wikipage for the DVB-USB-drivers to find out, which firmware
+you need for your device:
+
+http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_USB
+
+1.2. Compiling
+
+Since the driver is in the linux kernel, activating the driver in
+your favorite config-environment should sufficient. I recommend
+to compile the driver as module. Hotplug does the rest.
+
+If you use dvb-kernel enter the build-2.6 directory run 'make' and 'insmod.sh
+load' afterwards.
+
+1.3. Loading the drivers
+
+Hotplug is able to load the driver, when it is needed (because you plugged
+in the device).
+
+If you want to enable debug output, you have to load the driver manually and
+from withing the dvb-kernel cvs repository.
+
+first have a look, which debug level are available:
+
+modinfo dvb-usb
+modinfo dvb-usb-vp7045
+etc.
+
+modprobe dvb-usb debug=<level>
+modprobe dvb-usb-vp7045 debug=<level>
+etc.
+
+should do the trick.
+
+When the driver is loaded successfully, the firmware file was in
+the right place and the device is connected, the "Power"-LED should be
+turned on.
+
+At this point you should be able to start a dvb-capable application. I'm use
+(t|s)zap, mplayer and dvbscan to test the basics. VDR-xine provides the
+long-term test scenario.
+
+2. Known problems and bugs
+
+- Don't remove the USB device while running an DVB application, your system
+ will go crazy or die most likely.
+
+2.1. Adding support for devices
+
+TODO
+
+2.2. USB1.1 Bandwidth limitation
+
+A lot of the currently supported devices are USB1.1 and thus they have a
+maximum bandwidth of about 5-6 MBit/s when connected to a USB2.0 hub.
+This is not enough for receiving the complete transport stream of a
+DVB-T channel (which is about 16 MBit/s). Normally this is not a
+problem, if you only want to watch TV (this does not apply for HDTV),
+but watching a channel while recording another channel on the same
+frequency simply does not work very well. This applies to all USB1.1
+DVB-T devices, not just the dvb-usb-devices)
+
+The bug, where the TS is distorted by a heavy usage of the device is gone
+definitely. All dvb-usb-devices I was using (Twinhan, Kworld, DiBcom) are
+working like charm now with VDR. Sometimes I even was able to record a channel
+and watch another one.
+
+2.3. Comments
+
+Patches, comments and suggestions are very very welcome.
+
+3. Acknowledgements
+ Amaury Demol (ademol@dibcom.fr) and Francois Kanounnikoff from DiBcom for
+ providing specs, code and help, on which the dvb-dibusb, dib3000mb and
+ dib3000mc are based.
+
+ David Matthews for identifying a new device type (Artec T1 with AN2235)
+ and for extending dibusb with remote control event handling. Thank you.
+
+ Alex Woods for frequently answering question about usb and dvb
+ stuff, a big thank you.
+
+ Bernd Wagner for helping with huge bug reports and discussions.
+
+ Gunnar Wittich and Joachim von Caron for their trust for providing
+ root-shells on their machines to implement support for new devices.
+
+ Allan Third and Michael Hutchinson for their help to write the Nebula
+ digitv-driver.
+
+ Glen Harris for bringing up, that there is a new dibusb-device and Jiun-Kuei
+ Jung from AVerMedia who kindly provided a special firmware to get the device
+ up and running in Linux.
+
+ Jennifer Chen, Jeff and Jack from Twinhan for kindly supporting by
+ writing the vp7045-driver.
+
+ Steve Chang from WideView for providing information for new devices and
+ firmware files.
+
+ Michael Paxton for submitting remote control keymaps.
+
+ Some guys on the linux-dvb mailing list for encouraging me.
+
+ Peter Schildmann >peter.schildmann-nospam-at-web.de< for his
+ user-level firmware loader, which saves a lot of time
+ (when writing the vp7041 driver)
+
+ Ulf Hermenau for helping me out with traditional chinese.
+
+ André Smoktun and Christian Frömmel for supporting me with
+ hardware and listening to my problems very patiently.
diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
index d64430bf4bb6..e6b8d05bc08d 100644
--- a/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt
@@ -1,69 +1,55 @@
-How to get the Nebula, PCTV and Twinhan DST cards working
-=========================================================
+How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working
+=========================================================================================
-This class of cards has a bt878a as the PCI interface, and
-require the bttv driver.
+1) General information
+======================
-Please pay close attention to the warning about the bttv module
-options below for the DST card.
+This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface.
+The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means
+to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
-1) General informations
-=======================
+2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12
+=========================================
-These drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means to access
-the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
+Enable the following options:
-Because of this, you need to enable
"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices"
- => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
-
-Furthermore you need to enable
+ => "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
"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" "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/TwinHan PCI Cards"
-2) Loading Modules
-==================
+3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches
+===============================================
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.
+i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver,
+which is called the backend.
+The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110),
+TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend.
+For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt.
-3a) Nebula / Pinnacle PCTV
---------------------------
+3a) The manual approach
+-----------------------
- $ modprobe bttv (normally bttv is being loaded automatically by kmod)
- $ modprobe dvb-bt8xx (or just place dvb-bt8xx in /etc/modules for automatic loading)
+Loading modules:
+modprobe bttv
+modprobe dvb-bt8xx
+Unloading modules:
+modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx
+modprobe -r bttv
-3b) TwinHan and Clones
+3b) The automatic approach
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- $ modprobe bttv i2c_hw=1 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.
-
-If you're having an older card (blue color circuit) and card=0x71 locks
-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.
-
-debug takes values 0 and 1. You can either disable or enable debugging.
-
-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.
+If not already done by installation, place a line either in
+/etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text:
+alias char-major-81 bttv
-dst_get_device_id: Recognise [DSTMCI]
+Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text:
+dvb-bt8xx
+Reboot your system and have fun!
--
-Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham
+Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla