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Patrick Keene wrote to the linux-dvb list, asking where in menuconfig he
can enable dvb-bt8xx for his AVerMedia DVB card. I pointed the following
out to him:
config DVB_BT8XX
tristate "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/Twinhan PCI cards"
It has been agreed upon that this description is extremely misleading.
This patch changes the one-liner description text of dvb-bt8xx to something
more meaningful, and adds AVerMedia to the detailed description.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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How to get the Nebula Electronics DigiTV, Pinnacle PCTV Sat, Twinhan DST + clones working
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1) General information
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======================
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This class of cards has a bt878a chip as the PCI interface.
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The different card drivers require the bttv driver to provide the means
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to access the i2c bus and the gpio pins of the bt8xx chipset.
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2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12
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=========================================
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Enable the following options:
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"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices"
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=> "Video For Linux" => "BT848 Video For Linux"
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"Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" => "Digital Video Broadcasting Devices"
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=> "DVB for Linux" "DVB Core Support" "BT8xx based PCI cards"
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3) Loading Modules, described by two approaches
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In general you need to load the bttv driver, which will handle the gpio and
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i2c communication for us, plus the common dvb-bt8xx device driver,
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which is called the backend.
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The frontends for Nebula DigiTV (nxt6000), Pinnacle PCTV Sat (cx24110),
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TwinHan DST + clones (dst and dst-ca) are loaded automatically by the backend.
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For further details about TwinHan DST + clones see /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt.
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3a) The manual approach
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Loading modules:
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modprobe bttv
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modprobe dvb-bt8xx
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Unloading modules:
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modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx
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modprobe -r bttv
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3b) The automatic approach
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If not already done by installation, place a line either in
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/etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text:
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alias char-major-81 bttv
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Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text:
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dvb-bt8xx
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Reboot your system and have fun!
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--
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Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla
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