| 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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| 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. |
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| 2) Compilation rules for Kernel >= 2.6.12 |
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| Enable the following options: |
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| "Device drivers" => "Multimedia devices" |
| => "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" |
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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 |
| 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. |
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| 3a) The manual approach |
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| Loading modules: |
| modprobe bttv |
| modprobe dvb-bt8xx |
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| Unloading modules: |
| modprobe -r dvb-bt8xx |
| 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 |
| /etc/modules.conf or in /etc/modprobe.conf containing this text: |
| alias char-major-81 bttv |
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| Then place a line in /etc/modules containing this text: |
| dvb-bt8xx |
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| Reboot your system and have fun! |
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| Authors: Richard Walker, Jamie Honan, Michael Hunold, Manu Abraham, Uwe Bugla |